Steve and Judy's Travels!

 

For an orange crowned warbler.

 

Marshmallows.

 

And no complaints from the verdin either.

 

Second choice, the homemade mix of chunky peanut butter/corn meal/lard suet paste.

 

 

Today will be our biggest day of year-birds.  A day-count of 67.  Birds remaining to get to 400 species.  333.

 

 

We’ve set a birding goal for 2021; a Texas Year.  How many bird species can we see in the state of Texas in a calendar year?  500 is possible, but that involves heroics.  We don’t want to dash off for every rare bird, wherever in Texas they are, all year long.  We’ll set a less-ambitious goal.  How many regularly occurring birds can we get?  We’ll go for a species count of 400.

 

 

 

 

Judy shooing javelina.

 

 

Javelina in the yard.

Attitude.

 

 

And a moonrise through the trees.

 

 

And a campfire.

 

 

 

2020 was a difficult year for so many.  Let’s hope 2021 is better for most.

 

Happy New Year!

 

 

But since our place has wheels, we’re celebrating the arrival of the new year at Falcon State Park.

 

Falcon State Park map

 

The post for every other site is bagged (alternate sites).  Nice separation.

 

 

 

 

We have a great yard.  The bird feeders are all hung.  We have ten different attractors.  Songbird seed blend; fruit and nut blend; dried mealworms; whole peanuts in the shell; hummingbird food;, cake suet; homemade peanut butter, cornmeal, lard blend suet paste; finch seed sock feeder; marshmallows; and a water mister.

 

This will be our home for five days.

 

 

You never know what exotic places birding adventures will take a person to.  Like here.

 

 

What are the chances we’d have ever given these oil storage tanks a second look if there weren’t two crested caracaras standing on them?