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Dickcissel (Spiza americana) - male 18 May 2016 Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma Dickcissels were nesting in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and we observed this male while it groomed from a perch next to one of the fences intended to keep the Buffalo and Longhorns in their respective sections of the wildlife refuge. The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is administered by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior.
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Dickcissel (Spiza americana) - male 18 May 2016 Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma Dickcissels were nesting in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and we observed this male while it groomed from a perch next to one of the fences intended to keep the Buffalo and Longhorns in their respective sections of the wildlife refuge. The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is administered by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior.
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Elizabeth and I ended the day at the magnificent Acton Nature Center -- this is such a great place. If you haven't been, you should go. :)
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I surveyed an area at Texas City Prairie Preserve before the other volunteers arrived. I found a few things, and got photos of a few of them.
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A few more photos from the spring of 2011, that was a great spring for me, I had just returned to Texas having lived in other states for 30 years.
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Small grey and brown songbird with yellow mask stripe above the eye. White breast.
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Small grey and brown songbird with yellow mask stripe above the eye. White breast. This is a male.
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Small grey and brown songbird with yellow mask stripe above the eye. White breast. This is a male.