Seasonal Delights

Some of America’s most spectacular wildlife watching events occur on private lands here in the Texas Panhandle. Private landowners, cooperating with Texas Prairie Rivers, have made their lands available for wildlife watching and outdoor activities. Experience landscape-scale views on tens of thousands of rolling sand-sage ranchland. We welcome you to our corner of Texas, and ask only that you make reservations before entering on any private property, that you tread lightly, and that you take back the memories of a lifetime!

Spring on the plains ushers in courtship rituals of the Lesser Prairie Chicken, wildflower riots, the return of nesting kites and migrant songbirds, cool evenings, pleasant days, and carpets of wildflowers.

Summer invites you to enjoy the brilliant swallowtails, sulphurs, and fritillaries, as multicolored butterflies feast on the nectar of the plains’ flowering plants. Darners, pennants, and a variety of other dragonflies make summer a feast of color.

Fall brings migrant shorebirds, raptors, flycatchers, and warblers through the plains, and washes the riverbanks in brilliant autumn foliage.

Winter will entrance you with Rough-legged Hawks, Bald Eagles, wintering sparrows, and the clearest nights, beckoning you to turn your eyes toward the brilliant, starry skies.

For a map and information on great birding sites in Donley County please go to
http://www.clarendonedc.org/visit/wildlife.htm