January 2020 – Elmendorf Lake Park – Bird Island: The USDA‘s Wildlife Service continues their assault on the Egrets and Herons on Bird Island. Volunteers bang two by four boards at the birds while a USDA employee shoots EPCD’s or Explosive Pest Control Devices out of blank 22 handguns at the birds. The explosives are […]
Tag: Egrets
San Antonio Bird City Hired a Killer to Manage a Nursery
The City of San Antonio (COSA) hired a “killer” to manage a nursery – aka a rookery. A rookery is a colony of breeding animals, generally gregarious birds. In fact The City of San Antonio hired the USDA‘s Wildlife Services to “manage” the waterbirds that migrate each year to the city to breed. USDA’s Wildlife […]
Driving wildlife into urban areas – then blaming them for the aftermath!
It was around seven o’clock last night when we spotted what we thought was a fox in Brackenridge Park, the creature came out of the shadows of the Joske Pavillion (No lights on). To our surprise it was a Coyote that ran by on the sidewalk. In the spring of 2022, we spotted a wild […]
Pinks, Parasols and a Phalarope
The weather was warm and settled ideal conditions for the pink footed geese to arrive from Iceland. I like to witness one of nature’s spectacles as the geese arrive at Martin Mere for their winter holidays. There were already about seven thousand geese in the area and I was hoping for many more during the […]
Back In Action
I am pleased to report that I am now mobile and back in action following recent surgery. I was looking forward to return to some of my favourite locations to catch up on the comings and goings. For my first visit I chose to go to Mere Sands Nature Reserve to hopefully see the kingfishers […]
Feisty Egrets
Here’s a lovely snowy egret with gold feet on display and plumes blowing in the wind. It’s in a great fishing spot near the outflow from a water gate at one of the ponds at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, New Jersey. It’s a spot worth defending, apparently, and any unwary egret […]
Sunderland Point
I recently had a couple of visits to Sunderland Point on the Lune Estuary. This is a remote and beautiful part of Lancashire and requires an amount of planning before any visit. It is a finger of land surrounded on one side by the estuary of the River Lune and on the other by part […]
Winter is here – Jubail
I went birding to Jubail in mid-November and came across a number of winter visitors most of which I failed to photograph. I saw hundreds of Greater Cormorants of a flood sabkha area. This species was previously uncommon in Jubail but the last few years thousands of birds winter here and on the coast. Other […]