by Priscilla H Wilson | May 11, 2013 | Birding, Family, Writing
I know it is spring when my email box is stuffed with lists of the birds that other people have seen. This is the first time in several years that birders across this part of Kansas have raved during the month of May about the number of migrating birds they are...
by Priscilla H Wilson | May 16, 2012 | Birding, Family
A long weekend in Minnesota can’t be beat. It is the Audubon group’s Warbler Weekend. My sister, Pam, and I join son, Ben Thursday afternoon for a couple of days of birding. We stay in Lake City, MN … walk miles through the Hok-Si-La Park and Frontenac State Park…...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Nov 27, 2011 | Birding
The day before Thanksgiving a phone call sends son Ben off to chase a Snowy Owl. One of the women from the Raptor Center, University of Minnesota, calls. “A snowy owl is on the ground near I-35 and street such and such. Will you see if you can get it and bring...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Nov 2, 2011 | Birding, Photography, Writing
The weather changed and Indian summer left in a hurry. I captured the flicker and red belly woodpecker in my camera before all the change out doors. Then I settled down to read (and edit some stories) when my neighbor, Patty, called. Fantastic news, she had a...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Jun 3, 2011 | Birding, Travel
I am eighty…and the Level 4 trail is challenging and dangerous. Our son, Ben and I spend a morning in the Friederich Wilderness Area outside of San Antonio. We start early morning and climb to the area the map says we should find the Golden-cheeked Warbler. This...
by Priscilla H Wilson | Mar 18, 2011 | Birding, Travel
The first morning I go out as dawn is breaking. An endangered male yellow-knobbed curassow parades by in regal spender. His black curly crest and bright yellow knoblike wattles on his lower mandible, on top of a solid black feathered body, look like nothing I’ve ever...
