NOTE: all pics are taken in Texas unless stated otherwise:-
Spring 2023: I've
been very tardy in updating this page;
there are scores of new pages/images since
the previously listed update - check the
section header pages to see the date of
the last update to that content.
July 29, 2015: Added
a new section for our recent trip to Chiapas and Oaxaca Mexico
(most
of the
specialties -
take a look!)
- in the Birding Trips section..
December 17, 2014: Added a new section for our recent trip to Honduras (Great Tinamous; Lesser Roadrunner, Guatemalan Screech-Owl, Green-breasted Mountain-Gem, Honduran Emerald, etc.) - in the Birding Trips section..
December 01, 2014: Added
a lovely American
Dipper from GMNP, Texes - in the Misc.
Birds section.
updated Common
Eider variation - in the Bird
ID section.
November 30, 2014: Added photo of the
hatching-year Red-legged
Honeycreeper from the LRGV, Texes - in the Misc. Birds section.
November 24, 2014: Added a female Cassin's
Finch from Lubbock, Texes; updated Bewick's
Wren - in the Bird
ID section.
Added photos the TWO!
Common
Cranes from Muleshoe,
Texas - in the Misc. Birds section.
Added photos to the following entries: Regal Darner, Needhams' Skimmer , Red Rock Skimmer,
and Autumn Meadowhawk - in the Dragonflies section.
November 11, 2014: Added photos of the NW
Atlantic form to the Common
Eider page from Massachusetts;
a Common Loon with
a white lower flank patch
from Massachusetts; a Scopoli's-type
Cory's Shearwater; a smashing dark
morph
Swainson's
Hawk;
a flight
comparison of
first-winter
Common and
Forster's
Terns;
an Eastern
Wood-Pewee
with all-pale
mandible;
a Hammond's
Flycatcher
from
Bracketville,
west of San
Antonio; a
presumed Willow
Flycatcher
with some odd
features,
from west
Texas; a Yellow-bellied
Flycatcher
with an
apparent
narrow bill
and giving the
winter call; two
rather
different
Hermit
Thrushes
at the same
location; - in
the Bird
ID section.
Added a confiding - but upstaged - Ferruginous
Pygmy-Owl; updated pics of a Sagebrush
Sparrow that
has thick (too
thick?) malar
streaks;
- in the Misc. Birds section.
November 06/07, 2014: Added new, much better
photos of the Texas
Bar-tailed Godwit; a Russet-backed
Swainson's Thrush from
Texas - in the Bird
ID section.
Pics of both Texas
Collared
Plover
records - and
pics of Collared
Plovers from
Chile
that do not
have complete
chest bands;
my best pic
yet of Magnificent
Hummingbird,
from Arizona;
an unexpected
Lucy's
Warbler
from coastal
Texas (with Bar-tailed
Godwit
and Magnificent
Frigatebird
the same day); an unusual female Mourning
Warbler
(bottom of
page) with
complete gray
chest band -
in the Misc. Birds section.
Added recent
pics of Caribbean
Darner
and Pale
Green Darner
from Sabal
Palm
Sanctuary; a
female Black
Pondhawk
from Corpus
Christi;
finally I got
to see Red-faced
Dragonlets
in Texas!; a
flight shot of
two in-focus Band-winged
Dragonlets;
the first White-tailed
Sylphs
for Texas (3rd
U.S. record) - in the Dragonflies section.
Added a recent
photo of Tropical
Greenstreak
from southern
Texas; my
lifer Xami
Hairstreak,
Yojoa
Scrub-Hairstreaks and Pearly-gray
Hairstreaks
(three!) from
southern
Texas; four Starred
Skippers
from southern
Texas; a
rather worn Orange-edged
Roadside-Skipper from Arizona; nice shots of my first Giant-Skipper
- a Yucca G-S
from Austin -
in the Butterfly section.
Added a new
section with
old slide
photos from a
1990
trip to
Morocco
(Kittlitz's
Plover;
Slender-billed
Curlew,
Thick-billed
Lark,
Tristram's
Warbler,
Desert Sparrow,
etc.) - in the
Birding
Trips
section.
September
30, 2014: Yikes - it's been more
than a year since I maintained this log of
changes. There have been far too many
additions and changes for me to list here.
My apologies, and I will try harder to
maintain this log...
September 11, 2013: Recently added pics of: Plain-capped Starthroat, Broad-billed, Magnificent, and Black-chinned Hummingbirds, first-summer and juvenile Gray Hawks (Arizona), dueling Solitary Sandpipers, and two Prairie Warblers from Texas - in the Misc. Birds section. Added juvenile Sandwich Terns and yet another unusual (to me!) Empidonax Flycatcher from coastal Texas - in the Bird ID section
September 10, 2013: Recently added pics from Texas, Arizona and New Mexico of: Desert Shadowdamsels, Mexican Wedgetails, Black-and-white Damsels, California, Coppery, Spine-tipped, Amethyst, Springwater, Sabino, Tarascan and Tonto Dancers, Familiar Bluet (odd abdominal pattern), perched and flying Giant Darner, Riffle Darner, Malachite Darner, Yellow-legged, Dashed and Serpent Ringtails, Arizona Snaketail, Gray Sanddragon, Laura's Clubtail, Apache Snaketail, Bronze and Swift River Cruisers (in-hand comparison), Eight-spotted Skimmer, Striped and Spot-winged Meadowhawks - in the Dragonflies section.
August 07, 2013: Added a recent Short-tailed Hawk from South Texas - in the Misc. Birds section. Added another "White-throated Flycatcher-like" Willow Flycatcher from west Texas - in the Bird ID section. In the Birding Trips/Places section I have added a few unusual birds to the pre-digital Ecuador pages, and a few unusual birds to the Chile pages. In the Butterfly section I have added a recent Tailed Cecropian from south Texas and a White-angled Sulphur and Statira Sulphur from San Antonio.
July 15, 2013: I've been tardy in keeping this up-to-date:
The following entries
have been added to the Misc. Birds section: recent pics of Rufous-necked
Wood-Rail, western Purple Martins,
Red-faced Warbler -
all from New Mexico; a
Peregrine carrying a Cattle Egret,
and
Fish Crows
- from east Houston; Clark's
Grebe, Common Merganser, Crissal Thrasher, Colima
Warbler, Sage Sparrow - all from
west Texas; a
Scarlet
Tanager with golden
wing-bars, a western type Summer
Tanager, a "black-throated"
Tennessee Warbler - all from the central coast of Texas; all three
species of Ptarmigan - from Colorado and Alaska.
A Eurasian
Whimbrel from the upper Texas coast has been added to the Bird
ID section.
The following entries have been
added to the Birding
Trips/Places
section: A number of new birds for the Colombia
in December 2009 section; a new section with a
handful of birds from a West Mexico 2005
trip; a presumed Eastern Wood-Pewee to
the Rio Azul, Para section of Brazil 2008;
Yellow-billed Loon, gulls,
and various passerines added to the North Slope
Alaska 2006 section.
Recent pics of Dashed Ringtail and
Arizona Snaketail from
southeastern New Mexico, and another
Texas Tule Bluet have
all been added in the Dragonflies section.
The following entries have been
added to the Butterfly section: Melissa Blue, Red Satyr,