For the past two weeks we have been on a business trip to south Texas. However, the beautiful thing about birding is that it is an interest that will travel anywhere with us. There are birds everywhere in the world that a person would travel to. After our own Portal, Arizona area, the Rio Grande [...]
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We have a report from Campbell County, Wyoming that the Greater Sage Grouse are booming. They use the same area year after year, so any bird watcher should be able to give you directions. Contact us if you need more help locating a lek. This is something every bird watcher should see at least once. On [...] Tom and I just spent 2 weeks in the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas. We were working, but as any good birdwatcher knows there is always time for a little side trip to birdwatch. We were on Highway 281 by Los Indios when we spotted a small wetlands off of the highway. As shorebirds and [...] When we filled our coffee cups this morning and sat in front of our siding glass doors, we did not expect to see rival gangs try to take over our platform feeders! A calm and peaceful Black-throated Sparrow was the only thing in our entire feeding station whe the day started. He was selectively picking out his favorite [...] My neighbor stopped by for a cup of coffee and to discuss the “goings on” in Portal over the week-end. While she was sitting on our sofa she could see our Best -1 hummingbird feeder. She was amazed that we had a steady stream of hummingbirds in. She commented that she had picked up a hummingbird [...] Over the past weeks I have discussed the first two necessities of providing a good backyard habitat for birds; food and water. Today I will elaborate on the third and final component of a good habitat, shelter. Shelter can be provided to birds and other wildlife in three basic ways: birdhouses for nesting |
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