Tejas Camp (July 22, 2017)
A fairly short and quiet morning birding trip today! Birdy things are usually a little slow around here in July, and today definitely wasn’t any exception to that. It was nice to get back up here for the first time since April, though - and also for the first time since I really started trying to pay attention to plants!
The canopy here along the river is almost entirely elm, in contrast to our Live Oak / Hackberry woods further south, while the hilly stuff further off from the water is mostly Ashe Juniper, which is more in line with things back home. The riverside area has a pretty decent smattering of Chinaberry as well, and a little bit of Hackberry and Pecan (but not too much).
I’m still not familiar with most of the grasses I saw today, which is something I need to work on. There wasn’t too much Johnson Grass though, which was nice! Not tooo many notable insects, but at least a couple dragonflies and damselflies I haven’t seen yet that I need to figure out. :)
The most interesting bird of the day was a Swainson’s Hawk, which I don’t thiiiink is an expected breeding bird here (although it’s maybe on the edge of the range?). I’m not sure if this is just a wandering post-breeding bird, or if this is a more regular thing to see here, or what.