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Bird of the Week: Grasshopper Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum Content and photos by James Giroux Most sparrows head north from Central Texas before early spring, but there are a few species that breed here in the Austin area: Chipping, Lark, Field, Rufous-crowned and our bird of the week, Grasshopper Sparrow. Sparrows aren’t generally known for
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Tell the Austin City Council to Support Clean Energy
Featured Photo Credit: Northern Rough-winged Swallow. Photo: Doris Dumrauf/Alamy Audubon.org Austin Energy is proposing a Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan that promotes additional utility solar, local solar, energy efficiency, demand response, some (more needed) batteries, potentially microgrids, and new methane gas burning peaker plants. Peaker plants are less efficient and more polluting than combined cycle
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Volunteer Spotlight: Jordan Weingarten
Introduction Jordan Weingarten started his journey into birding through photography in 2021. He had been a life-long photographer and was looking for something new to photograph. Birds were beautiful and plentiful—how hard could photographing them be? But he quickly learned that taking pictures of birds wasn’t easy: they hid, they
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Bird of the Week: Woodhouse’s Scrub Jay
By Abby West Featured Photo by Chris Wood Woodhouse’s scrub-jays are an odd bunch, described as the Blue jay of dry lowlands from Nevada south to Mexico. They’re most often seen in Central Texas as a blue-grey streak disappearing into the brush. They’re said to be residents here, breeding and
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"Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today..." -Ernest Hemingway
