{"id":1506,"date":"2026-01-19T03:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:21:12","slug":"alliance-park-birding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/alliance-park-birding\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliance Park Birding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The past few winter weeks were warm and cloudy, a lackluster combo for bird photography. First, I have observed the birds are less prone to invading residential neighborhoods because they would rather seek food sources in their natural habitat, go figure. Second, cloudy days make birding deep in trellises extremely difficult because of the shade. Today, however, the birding gods smiled upon my wife and I as we embarked to a park local to my home. I chose this small little park because of other birds logging in their hours using eBird, and boy was I not disappointed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Birding close to home is the absolute best. If you have yet to find your local greenbelt, most neighborhoods should have one, then go do it…now! Most Texan residential neighborhoods do a great job of supporting birds migrating for winter and spring. In my case, Alliance Park is nestled in between an Amazon fulfillment center and several other corporations. You would never know this park is there if you weren’t searching for it, and for nature that is the most ideal..<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ring-billed Gulls chasing one another<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Harris’s Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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White-crowned Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Savannah Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Great Blue Heron in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Eastern Blue Bird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A female North American Cardinal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Northern Shovelers and a Mallard Duck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Canada Geese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A Great Blue Heron trying to show of its wingspan to a Great Egret<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Red-shouldered Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Red-shouldered Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The past few winter weeks were warm and cloudy, a lackluster combo for bird photography. First, I have observed the birds are less prone to invading residential neighborhoods because they would rather seek food sources in their natural habitat, go figure. Second, cloudy days make birding deep in trellises extremely difficult because of the shade. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,70,172],"tags":[42,140],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-171","category-birding","category-january-2026","tag-birding","tag-nature-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timharris.photography\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}