We had a close encounter with an American Badger a couple days ago

Saw a Northern Bobwhite today quite close to the road. If you zoom in, you can see the truck in the eye's reflection. 🪶

My first time seeing a Black-throated Blue Warbler today 🪶

🚨New paper alert!🚨 (only slightly delayed). I'm proud to have been a part of this cool work led by Dr. Marco Rego. Marco assembled a massive dataset of bird distributional information to test long-standing ideas about how rivers serve as taxon boundaries in the Amazon Basin. Check out those maps!

Portrait of a kite 🪶

A very fabulous Northern Waterthrush from today 🪶

Another bright warbler that is somewhat rare here seen this afternoon in West Texas 🪶

Found this bright guy in West Texas this morning 🪶

An inquisitive Red-faced Warbler in New Mexico 🪶

A bit of self reflection 🪶

This morning I managed to get both a Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs in the same frame for the first time. 🪶

The Purple Martins are back in West Texas. I wonder what this female (right) is thinking in this moment. 🪶

The US Forest Service. This is madness. Illegal, obviously. But madness even if it weren’t. WTAF morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

This thief stole a piece of cheese from my breakfast burrito while I made my coffee. Watch out for them in Hill Country! 🪶

A Black-throated Sparrow, uncommon for our area in west Texas 🪶

Not the usual view you get of a Brown Creeper 🪶

This time of year the Northern Shovelers are some of the most common ducks here in West Texas, giving plenty of photo opportunities. 🪶

Watched this pocket gopher for a bit today moving in and out of its hole to grab and chew on plant material. They seem to be mostly nocturnal, so it is always nice getting a good view of one.

A Ferruginous Hawk with its lunch. A Red-Tailed Hawk later stole the remaining food from it. 🪶

And a nice picture of the kingfisher 🪶

A Belted Kingfisher telling me what it thinks about me hiking near its fishing spot 🪶

Saw a bunch of eagles this morning, including this one landing on a frozen lake in Kansas 🪶

An acrobatic Northern Cardinal 🪶

Northern Shoveler on West Texas ice 🪶

A very fabulous looking Great Blue Heron, with a snowy backdrop 🪶

Lincoln's Sparrow in the snow 🪶

What is takes to be a snipe during a snowstorm 🪶

Hermit Thrush during this afternoon's snow in West Texas 🪶

House finch floofed up in the snow. You can see a few snow flakes streaking by in the photo. 🪶

Robins in West Texas snow 🪶

Not a common winter visitor here, a January American Redstart 🪶

A hybrid or admixed red-shafted x yellow shafted Northern Flicker 🪶

This Great Blue Heron was fishing and didn't mind me so I waited to get a nice headshot. 🪶

Northern Shoveler in flight 🪶

Great Blue Heron keeping an eye on me while fishing 🪶

Two different angles of a Great Blue Heron in a spillway🪶

Red-Winged Blackbird in the typical pose 🪶

Two Greater Yellowlegs in shallow water. 🪶

Green-Winged Teal walking in the mud. 🪶

Saw a Williamson's Sapsucker today, rare here in Lubbock, TX. 🪶

Look at the feet of this American Coot walking on the side of the playa lake 🪶

Red-Breasted Nuthatches in classic upside down poses. 🪶

Meadowlark marching through the short, dry grass 🪶

Two Pied-Billed Grebes in conversation. 🪶

A Red-Eared Slider performing a balancing act #wildlife #photography

West Texas Brown Creeper 🪶

A couple Black-Crested Titmice in early January. 🪶

First bird photographed of 2026: A White-Crowned Sparrow on a windy day in Lubbock 🪶

A Hooded Merganser showing off its crest. 🪶

A good day when you can get a decent photo of a Brown Creeper #birds #photography 🪶