Texas Panhandle
Bird Nerd

The Galveston Gals, my women birders traveling friends, enjoyed our 2025 fall migration trip to the upper Texas Gulf coast so much that we decided to head to Port Aransas for spring migration in 2026. We again rented a large AirBnB (this time on the beach), we studied the target birds before the trip, and then we spent five days chasing warblers, vireos, shorebirds and other lifers (birds we haven't seen before).

What happens when you take six women birders from Amarillo, fly them to Galveston for fall bird migration and put them in a fabulous AirBnB for five nights? Lots of lifers and laughs. Oh, and lots of humidity and mosquitoes.

Greater Prairie Chicken in Wray, Colorado Even before first light began to creep across the frost-bitten prairie, hysterical cackling and...

In which I make the move to a mirrorless camera system for my bird photography--the Nikon Z8 and the 180-600mm lens.