Silver Garden-Spider (Argiope argentata) Photographed at Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas. As always, click on the photo to see a larger, more detailed image. Get Wordless over at Wordless...

After 4 days of daily (very) early morning starts to go birding for the better part of the day, you might think that we'd take our last day of vacation a little easier - sleep in, maybe do a little...

Day four of the festival and we're still going strong. Well, it wasn't easy getting out of bed at 4-something every morning, but when you are in 'the valley', with such great birds and guides, well,...

Going to break away from the Rio Grande Valley posts quickly for this week's BPW. Since returning from our trip, there have been a lot of great bird reports locally, which made it somewhat difficult...

Day three started dark and early again. We met the bus at the convention center again at about 4:30am for a 5am departure. Today's destinations included Salineno and Chapeno, which are northwest of...