Birding Bastrop Hotspot Sayer’s Road Bastrop, Texas is an excellent birding destination, and one of the best places to find birds is Sayer’s Road, a designated eBird birding hotspot. Most”birders know how to look up “hotspots” on eBird. Hotspot information includes a map, birds ever seen, birds likely to be seen, a bar chart ofContinue reading
Tag: Birds of Bastrop TX
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Birding Bastrop Hotspots-Sayer’s Road
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Winter Sparrows at Little Piney, Bastrop, TX
Winter Sparrows at Little Piney The winter sparrows are back at Little Piney. Some of them are plentiful and easy to spot, while others are shy and more elusive. Here are ten sparrows that have found their way to Little Piney and posed for the camera. I’m still on the lookout for the other eightContinue reading
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Living Right with Nature
Living Right A Facebook friend and wildlife biologist commented on one of my recent posts that I must be “living right” because I see such wonderful things at Little Piney. I don’t know if I’m living right–I think I’m doing okay– but, I feel very, very blessed to have this little place in theContinue reading
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Spring Migration at Little Piney Bastrop TX
Morning Light Last week Little Piney was so alive with spring migration that I was up before sunlight listening to birds. Spring migration at Little Piney Bastrop TX is an exciting time! Up early every morning, I also got to see the sun rise through backlit trees. Spring Migration at Little PineyContinue reading
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Winter to Early Spring at Little Piney
Cedar Waxwing Finale As we slip from winter to early spring at Little Piney, there are a few surprises. The Cedar Waxwings are usually gone before the trees leaf out, so I am accustomed to seeing their saucy forms silhouetted with bare branches. But not this year! This morning a small flock fed and preening inContinue reading
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Some Days Are Just Strange
Full of Surprises Life in the country is full of surprises, and some days are just strange. You never know what you will see or hear. My friend Lisa and I were walking on Saturday morning and heard–as Lisa put it–“something being murdered” in the creek bed. Screeches and squawks went on for a goodContinue reading
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Beautiful Birds of Winter: American Kestrel, Song Sparrow, Green Kingfisher
Beautiful Birds of Winter As the landscape evolves from verdant to gray, summer birds quietly leave and winter birds (not so quietly in the case of Robins and Cedar Waxwings) take their place. We welcome them back with full feeders and delight. In the past two weeks, an American Kestrel, a Song Sparrow, and aContinue reading
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Red-shouldered Hawk’s Crunchy Breakfast
Red-shouldered Hawk Sometimes all I see of the Red-shouldered Hawk is a dark shadow passing over the field, sometimes, a familiar shape disappearing at the edge of vision. She is in front of me, then behind me when I never saw her move. Sometimes, I turn around, and she is only feet away calm andContinue reading
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When I’m Birding It’s Totally Up to the Birds
It’s Totally Up to the Birds I have to confess, on my first few “birding walks” led by expert birders, I asked myself “Are they making this up?” Most of the time, I never saw the bird they pointed out. When I did, I saw a gray silhouette against the morning sky while the guideContinue reading
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Painting Birds at Little Piney
Painting Birds After painting yet another landscape in June, I felt restless to try something new. I wanted to paint in a looser style, and I wanted to paint some birds! I pulled out my pastels for a change of pace and some favorite photos for references and got started. I collected some old acrylicContinue reading