Author Archives: Roger

phrynosoma hernandesi Thursday, May 21, 2020 — 3:45 pm Pawnee National Grassland — Road 47 I was driving carefully along the tire tracks that were all there was to Road 47 when I saw what looked like a toad in … Continue reading →

Hoping to get some photos of prairie birds, I drove the two-and-a-half hours up to Pawnee Grasslands. I almost didn’t go — I hadn’t slept at all well for two nights. But the weather was supposed to be an almost … Continue reading →

This was a great day of birding. I began at Mueller State Park and hiked my usual four-mile trail loop. There was another car at the trail head when I finished hiking, and I saw a couple people out and … Continue reading →

After work on Monday, I wandered along Black Squirrel Creek for a couple hours. The highlight was a pair of Red Crossbills in the pines along one of the ponds. The male sat on an exposed branch for several minutes … Continue reading →

Saturday, March 14 was the last time I “went somewhere” to bird before the world shut down, and that somewhere was just down to Clear Spring Ranch on the south end of the county. The state officially went “stay-at-home” on … Continue reading →