The first ones are of an upland sandpiper. What is amazing about these birds are that they are just passing through my area after starting their spring migration in Argentina. I found them in the pastures around my area.





This next set is of different rufous crowned sparrows, one of the many native species that are losing habitat at a phenomenal rate.







Here is a very common bird, in no danger whatsoever, but it is Texas variety of the common tufted titmouse. It is a Black Crested Titmouse. They are very quick and skittish birds. This one stopped just long enough to ponder which peanut to pick up.









This is a common eastern phoebe at dusk in the shadows. I used a flash for fill.



The Lark Sparrows are out in force in Texas as well.


The highlight for me in the past few weeks was being able to observe and photograph the very shy, highly endangered Golden Cheeked Warbler that spends most of its life in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, but does come back to the Texas Hill Country to breed. It has been endangered since first discovered in the 1800s because of mainly habitat loss. I could not coax these guys out in the open so these shots are of these birds high in the trees.

Female feeding




Male just watching his territory