For those interested, Kevin and I have updated our photo website again. Since last notifying you, we have traveled to southern Texas (again!), Nebraska, and South Dakota.
In Texas we returned, for a second time, to the Martin Refuge. Again, we would highly recommend going there to photograph or just observe birds. They have numerous blinds with some built half in to the ground so that you are observing/photographing at eye level. One of their blinds is a raptor station where Crested Caracara, Harris's Hawk and Greater Roadrunner come. They also have an outstanding Bird Guide, Patty Raney who will answer all your questions and make sure your visit is rewarding. Visit their website at www.martinrefuge.com. In mid-April we returned to Mitch and Patty Glidden's Sandhills Motel in Mullen, Nebraska to photograph the courtship display of Greater Prairie Chickens and Sharp-tailed Grouse from blinds. We highly recommend this experience too. Mitch spends a lot of time figuring out just where the birds are going to be each season and sets up the blinds accordingly. He does an excellent job! Visit his website at www.grassland.dance. We also have photos from Sax-Zim Bog and from around our own home. This year we have two Robins, an Eastern Phoebe, and Eastern Bluebirds nesting in our yard. We are hoping to get a Hummingbird nest this year! Here are the birds found in our newest photos: Northern Mockingbird Curve-billed Thrasher Red-winged Blackbird Common Pauraque Buff-bellied Hummingbird Swainson's Hawk Ring-necked Pheasant Western Meadowlark Greater Prairie Chicken Sharp-tailed Grouse Great Horned Owl Crested Caracara Harris's Hawk Plain Chachalaca Greater Roadrunner (this bird camped with us! He was so much fun.) Great-tailed Grackle Black-bellied Whistling Duck Mallard x Black Duck Hybrid Mottled Duck Cinnamon Teal Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Solitary Sandpiper Black-throated Sparrow Green Jay Northern Cardinal Pyrrhuloxia Clay-colored Sparrow Cassin's Sparrow Olive Sparrow Vermillion Flycatcher Audubon's Oriole Green-tailed Towhee Golden-fronted Woodpecker Common Ground Dove Northern Bobwhite Blue Jay Dark-eyed Junco House Sparrow Common Redpoll Pine Siskin Boreal Chicadee Grey Jay Pine Grosbeak Any problems with the website, please let us know. Any comments or suggestions, we'd love to hear from you! ENJOY Linda and Kevin Krueger www.FlightOfNature.com ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
