The Birdchaser

A pair of Bald Eagles are making the news 80 miles NW of Austin near LLano, where they are nesting just off the highway. Folks are gatheri...

With one more species to go to make 200 for the year in Travis County, I headed out east of Austin to the municipal landfill to look for gul...

Since I haven't spent much time in the western half of Travis County this year, I headed out for a couple hours of birding at Pace Bend ...

A couple years ago, I started a contest to see how many people could find 200 species in any of the counties around Austin, Texas each year...

After my owl workshop, I took my kids up to the ponds at Hornsby Bend to look for a possible Greater Scaup that had been reported there. I ...

This weekend I taught an owl workshop for the Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory . Thirty participants joined me to learn about the ecology of t...

Yesterday as I went to get the mail, an adult female Cooper’s Hawk, a locally uncommon bird, flew up into a large sycamore in my yard—the sa...

This evening I headed out to Hornsby Bend with my two oldest kids. Wanted to scout out Platt Lane for some owls in advance of tomorrow...

Yesterday I decided to take my seven-year old and three-year old out to look for Wild Turkeys on Thanksgiving. We headed out to my favorite...