Daily Archives: March 4, 2018

Yigüirro in Weslaco

Greetings everyone. My apologies for lack of productivity as of late. Wait, I should clarify that a bit .. for my lack of productivity in getting posts out. Thanks to a an upcoming commitment, my post counts were significantly elevated in support of that endeavor. Unfortunately, my fairly ample runway of time was gobbled up by some form of rift in the space time continuum. There is no other explanation – one minute there’s like 3 months to go, then there was a small but finely tuned wind storm that ripped the pages right off my calendar. This forced a transition from prep phase to the produce phase and now pretty much in the polish phases. Can’t wait to find out how all this turns out, but you will assuredly be reading about it here…soon. Rather than leave everyone hanging a little over a week, thought I’d treat you to some finds on our recent trip to the Texas Gulf Coast.

Clay-Colored Thrush found at the Valley Birding Center in Weslaco, Texas January 2017

If there is one thing that is prevalent when birding the Gulf Coast and southern most tip regions of Texas its colorful birds.  So stunning that many even passed Linda’s high “pretty” threshold that has to be met before she will even bother taking a picture of a bird.  This rather drab looking specimen before you doesn’t come close to those other coastal finds (like here and here).  That doesn’t mean it isn’t something I’m super excited to now have on my birding list!

Clay-Colored Thrush found at the Valley Birding Center in Weslaco, Texas January 2017

Hit the jump to find out what this bird is!

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