Date April 27, 2025
Location Shipman Park, Alpine, TX
After spending the day visiting a couple of historical parks, we settled in in Alpine, TX the evening before proceeding to Big Bend. I checked the map of Alpine, and a community park called Shipman Park seemed to be our best bet to find birds. It was sort of a mixed-use park with softball fields, playgrounds, and plenty of large trees. A creek ran through the park as well. There were plenty of "wild" areas. At one point we heard a Great Horned Owl and later saw it flying away from us. There were lots of birds here.
It was very breezy since a storm was (sort of) coming in -- we never got rained on, but the wind became fierce enough toward the end of the walk that we were getting blasted by dust from the ball fields. The high winds made birding a bit more difficult since birds perched on branches were moving with the wind.
The first lifer bird in the park for me was this bird. We found it perched high in a tree on an exposed branch, singing.
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