Texas has a wonderful assortment of birds - more than in MA. Right about now is the perfect time to be looking out for them. They'll be hanging out in their springtime breeding plumage, all bright and colorful.

I know up here in New England we all wait for the annual warbler migration. Their travel corridor is along the coast and it'll be about 3 weeks in May here in MA where they'll start to show up. Mt. Auburn Cemetery is a historic botanical cemetery in Cambridge, and happens to be one of the most popular warbler spots in the state because it is a very expansive green area along the coast. They fly at night and drop in, in the very early morning and if you're there at the right morning at 6 am there are hundreds of bright colorful warblers in trees, so many it seems like there are Christmas ornaments in the trees.

There are many places like that in Texas. Get a feeder, get a book. It's fun. You won't get warblers or other insect feeding birds at the feeder - only seed eaters but you got plenty of those too. But don't forget to look high in the trees. Your insect feeders will be hovering for food in the trees.