I present to you, the sound of summer (turn up the volume!)
In the typical male display, the Cassin's Sparrow (Aimophila cassinii)sings while flinging himself upward from the top of a shrub... and then he flutters down to another shrub. It is the ubiquitous sound. And we like it!
Tomorrow we will be getting our next box of Aplomados (six, rumor has it) so things might get a bit quiet on the blog until we get caught up with that. Their release is scheduled for the 31st, and we'll be feeding/monitoring uninterrupted through the middle of September.
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Click the Pic, French Frigate Shoals Atoll
San Diego County, CA
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Of fledged Falco, Ceratomia v. Lintneria, and other high-desert grassland musings.
Walling off the Last Sabal Palm Forest
“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” - John Muir
Walling off the Last Sabal Palm Forest
"..so long as politicians believe that militarizing the border plays well in their home districts they will continue to draft legislation calling for more border walls. To voters in Utah and Connecticut sabal palm forests along the Rio Grande are no more real than the forests in Avatar. When the palm forests are gone most won’t notice their passing. " - S. Nicol
Walling off the Last Sabal Palm Forest
"..so long as politicians believe that militarizing the border plays well in their home districts they will continue to draft legislation calling for more border walls. To voters in Utah and Connecticut sabal palm forests along the Rio Grande are no more real than the forests in Avatar. When the palm forests are gone most won’t notice their passing. " - S. Nicol
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Notable Shared Life Birds
- Nutting's Flycatcher (Myiarchus nuttingi) 2 Jan 2012, Santa Elena Canyon parking lot, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, TX
- Tufted Flycatcher (Mitrephanes phaeocercus) 30 Nov 2010, Rio Grande Village, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, TX
- Amazon Kingfisher (Chloroceryle amazona) 1 Feb 2010, Laredo, Webb County, TX
- Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) 9 Jan 2010, Bee County, TX
- Black-whiskered Vireo (Vireo altiloquus) 29 Jul 2009, DJKLHBSP, Key Largo, FL
- Western Spindalis (Spindalis zena) 28 Jul 2009, Everglades National Park, FL
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- Big Bend - Texas Nature
- Big Country Audubon
- Bird Safe Buildings - Project BirdSafe
- BirdLife International
- Birds & Buildings - for bird safe buildings
- Coffee and Conservation
- Dark Sky Society
- eBird
- Endangered Ugly Things
- Feather Atlas - Fish & Wildlife Service
- flap.org - Fatal Light Awareness Program
- Gulf Coast Bird Observatory
- National Wind Watch
- No Border Wall
- North American Moths Backyard Inventory
- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
- Sibley Guide to Birds
- TCWC - Roadkill Goes to College
- Texas Bird Conservation Alliance
- Texbirds via birdingonthe.net
- Wildlife Rehabilitation & Education
- xeno-canto - sharing bird songs from around the world
- Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
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Hermes Copper (Lycaena hermes)
San Diego County, CA
"When the moon shall have faded from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry-red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the ice-cap shall have crept downward from the equator from either pole, and no keels shall cut the waters, nor wheels turn in mills, when all cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the very last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, representing the sole survival of animal life on this our earth, --a melancholy 'bug'."
-- The Moth Book, W. J. Holland, 1909
-- The Moth Book, W. J. Holland, 1909
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LINK - Click the Rufous-capped Warbler
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