A Morning Out With the Gulls and the Boys
I took the boys out for a quick birding trip at the JFK Wetlands that turned into a surprisingly eventful morning. After watching the usual shoreline crowd and dealing with a fogged-up 400mm, we ended up chasing a Sabine’s Gull in Port Aransas — easily one of the simplest rare birds I’ve found all year.
Red-Footed and Out of Place
A Red-footed Booby showed up in Corpus Christi Bay this week — a bird that has no business being here. I spent three mornings watching it bounce between channel markers and rocks, testing the limits of my long glass and soaking in every minute of this rare visitor. Here’s the full story.
Fork-tailed determination
On Sunday afternoon, local birder Emma Mathis spotted a Fork-tailed Flycatcher (FTFL) along County Road 43 in Nueces County. The sighting lit up the local birding chats almost immediately. It’s one of those birds that makes everyone stop what they’re doing. The Fork-tailed Flycatcher is a rare visitor to Texas, more often seen in Central or South America, but every now and then one shows up along the Gulf Coast just long enough to make a few birders lose their minds.
Packery Channel | Corpus Christi
A rare Brown Noddy made a surprise appearance along the Packery Channel Jetties in early April. I headed out to try and find it, and ended up photographing it twice—once on purpose and once without even realizing it.