Birds

Lights out Texas

Lights Out, Texas! Help protect migrating birds passing through Texas by turning off all non-essential lighting on buildings from 11 pm to 6 am each night during spring migration from… Read More →

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Clyde’s Screech Owl box – Wildlife VRBO

Clyde Camp, 2011 Clyde has had little luck with the residents of his screech owl box making it through birth and fledging. You will laugh out loud at the attached… Read More →

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Tom’s Backyard

Tom Shackelford, 2018 – President We spend time in our back yard almost every day and sometimes I am quick enough to snap a shot with my phone. Two years… Read More →

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Doves nest location choices

By Clyde Camp, 2011 and Beverly Carpenter, 2013 Doves are not good nest builders as is apparent from photos from Clyde Camp and Beverly Carpenter. Beverly’s example is in a… Read More →

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Jim’s Crowned Night Herons Update

Remember the Golden crowned night herons that have nested in Jim Dulian’s yard? (See Below for article and photos) They came back, hung around a bit, decided they did not like… Read More →

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Laurie Sheppard | “Migrating Birds of Collin and Grayson County”

Tuesday, May 11, 7PM CST At least 615 bird species have been documented in Texas and more than half of those are migratory. Many of them migrate to or through Grayson and… Read More →

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Winter Ducks at Russell Creek Park

By John Garbutt, 2014 To some, winter and Uri are now four letter words never to be spoken again as we enter spring. As a birder, the harbinger of spring,… Read More →

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Quail Quest 2021

By Bob Mione, 2012 The past three years, Kristin and Mark Payne have incubated and brooded BW quail chicks for us at Connemara. When the BW’s were old enough, normally… Read More →

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Curious George Settles in for the Day

By Clyde Camp, 2011 Curious George arrives at about 20 seconds into the video link and settles in for the day. He’s verbally accosted by a couple of jays and… Read More →

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Ramblings on a Cold Morning

By Sally Evans, Founder Emeritus, 2006 By the time anyone reads this epistle the Backyard Bird Count will be over, the Great Winter Storm will be over, Valentine’s Day will… Read More →