Birds Of Texas

Signs of springs are all around us now. The temperature has risen. Wild flowers are blooming, but birds are one of the signs I notice here above Sulfur Creek. I know each year by certain bird signs that spring is really here. For one, the little sparrow hawk or kestrel…

Here above Sulfur Creek we have two large dogs whose main reason for residency is supposed to be guarding the property. Now these two part St. Bernard, dog food disposals, guard the property but mainly from squirrels. The other morning, after my early morning walk, I was enjoying the song…

When we first moved here above Sulfur Creek we lived in a tent camper we had borrowed from my sister-in-law. We only had three of the crew then. The tent camper was great for keeping out mosquitoes and the rain, but the sounds of the night were another thing indeed…

A few years ago during the dove season I called the game warden about a confused young female hawk. There is a meadow were Sulfur Creek and Barton Creek join and dove hunters gather there every year to shoot the small birds. Now I don’t hunt, but I understand why…