Your field guide and you
Last week I wrote about the different field guides. Today I want to help you find your way around the one you selected. Let’s look at the book’s organization. This information comes from Sheila...
View ArticleFour Birdwatching Tips-Observing Characteristics
Are you thinking about becoming a birdwatcher? Here is some information from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Birdwatching by Sheila Buff on how to identify the bird by the way it looks.
View ArticleBird wings and feet help you identify that bird
I promised I would finish telling you how to identify birds by their wings and feet. Again I am using Sheila Buff’s The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Birdwatching, but you can also find a lot of this...
View ArticleWishbone- Bird Breathing or Good Luck
When my brother and I were little we used to fight over who would get the "pullybone." Also called the wishbone and a merry-thought, this part of the chicken or turkey has no doubt caused a spat or two...
View ArticleLarge and ugly spider–the tarantula
Tarantulas are the largest and most ominous looking of all our local spiders, yet they simply don't deserve their fiendish eminence. Instead, tarantulas are a fascinating arachnid that do more good...
View ArticleListen to the Mockingbird
I have been hearing the beautiful song of our state bird, the Northern Mockingbird lately. I looked up information on mockingbirds in The Behavior of Texas Birds by Kent Rylander, a person I heard at...
View ArticleBubble Bird, Rain Crow or Yellow-billed Cuckoo?
I have to write to you about the Bubble Bird. I began hearing him and his companions last fall and then around November they disappeared. What drove me to distraction about this bird was that he “sang”...
View ArticleHummingbird facts
I saw my first fall hummingbird last night. It was rather dark outside, but I think he was a Black-chinned Hummer. I have watched many hummingbirds in the past. They eat, they squabble with each other...
View ArticleA Lesson on Birds of a Feather
Feathers are most important parts of a bird. Only birds have them and although us humans notice them mainly for their beauty, feathers are a marvel of nature. Many scientists would have you believe...
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