State of Wilderness

Category: Birding

  • Brazos Bend State Park: Sunrise Birding #1

    It was early in the morning on a Saturday, and the park wasn’t officially open yet.  My friend Janey and I are walking in that slow, quiet gait that birders develop along the southeast section of 40 Acre Lake, scanning the tree tops for signs of the Barred Owl that has been spotted out there.…

  • Goals

    Last week, a girl at work asked a group of us what our goals were for 2017.  I told her a couple of short term work-type goals, but I didn’t get into my true goals of the year, since it wasn’t seemly for me to start dominating the conversation by listing my hobby goals.  However,…

  • Fiorenza Park: Eagles, Reflections, Goals, and Pipe Dreams

    Fiorenza Park: Eagles, Reflections, Goals, and Pipe Dreams

    Every morning during the week, I turn my car east on Westpark Tollway and join all the cars heading out of Katy. There is a time, usually coming over the hill past 1093,  that I hit a slowdown of this congested spot of tollway and find myself sitting still in bumper to bumper gridlock that carries…

  • High Island: Striking a Balance

    High Island: Striking a Balance

    Over the weekend, my family and I went out to visit the Houston Audubon’s sanctuaries in High Island, a town at the far eastern end of the Bolivar Peninsula.  In the spring, migratory birds traveling from Central and South America who are crossing the Gulf of Mexico in search of their spring breeding grounds sometimes…