Best Birds of 2024 – Running List

Posted on October 30, 2024November 1, 2024 by Jess

Cover photo: a comically bad, blurry capture of one of the coolest spectacles I’ll probably ever see!

I start this as a placeholder blog annually to keep track of bird sightings and dates, to summarize at the end of year!

4/6 – I dragged my non-birder beau up the Hillview Natural Trail (and through the paved trail) at Eisenhower Park (San Antonio, TX) to get a glimpse of my lifer golden-cheeked warbler!
5/17- Josh Gant found an incredible record of common swift at the Meadows, during the spring festival! What a crowd-pleaser, to say the least!
10/6 – white-tailed ptarmigan at Medicine Bow
10/30 – black and yellow rails…!!!

…more to come…and to be fully fleshed out in a NYE post!

Fall Fest Kayak Tour

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Jess

Today was my first day guiding for fall fest this year! I was so glad my friend Emily invited me to co-lead the kayak trip with her.

Our approx. path, launching from the osprey dock

Medicine Bow Trail

Posted on October 1, 2024October 19, 2024 by Jess

What a perfect way to celebrate our workshop well received: a hike along Medicine Bow trail in the alpine zone of Rocky Mountain National Park! We didn’t see ptarmigan but we were able to pickup radio signal from our tags on a local flock. They seriously seemed to be keeping ahead of us, just over each hillside we traversed…eventually, we let them win.