Potential Impacts of a Spring Freeze in Texas on Songbirds Fledged in 2021

In February central Texas experienced an unexpected deep freeze. Experts reported adverse effects on wildlife including sea turtles, fish, monarchs, and birds. Goose Pond Sanctuary and partners fledged 1,254 songbirds from boxes in 2020 (5.2 per box) and 1,031 in 2021 (4.2 per box).

Photo by Arlene Koziol

Meet "Madison" the Red-Tailed Hawk

The Red-tailed Hawk Project is an ambitious research collaboration covering a large geographic range, investigating the movement ecology, taxonomy, systematics, biogeography and genomics of the hawks from Mexico to Alaska and Canada.

Photo by Sue Kaehler

Gulls

Gulls

Herring and Ring-billed Gull flocks are often following recently tilled fields, picking through meals of earthworms and other invertebrates. It’s common to see these birds flying at dusk near Faville Grove, either north or south, presumably to Rock Lake to the south or Mud Lake to the north.

Photo by Eric Bégin