JATB 40: Live From the Crosstimbers.

levi and i are finally getting out birding together this summer i guess we have a couple times one of our favorite places is south of see something already one of our favorite places is our post oak woods across timbers yellow bill cuckoo our first bird of the day yellow bill cuckoo there's another well that a lot of yellow on it what was that female summer tanager.

A couple good birds already in these post oak woods.

Post oak, blackjack oak, winged elm, there's some ash.

Look up the cross timbers if you haven't yet.

It's a great habitat type here.

It's finally a nice like 70 degree morning in the summer.

We're going to get some good late summer birds here, including some migrants.

First two birds were yellow-billed cuckoo and Summer tanager.

This is where we get a lot of eastern screech owls, chuckwills widows, Louisiana water thrush, Kentucky warbler.

I don't know if we'll get that far in the woods today to get all them.

We have already found our classics, the staples, the bread and butter here.

Blue jay, northern cardinal, Carolina wren, Carolina chickadee, red-eyed vireo.

Also some chinkapin oaks, which I forgot were in here.

Just a beautiful big tree.

I've never realized how big this tree is, Levi.

It's a massive oak.

I just love all the native oaks here, different corcus species.

Hearing more cuckoos.

Sounds like some mcterids up there.

This is a place we have often ran into copperheads late at night.

They come out on the trail.

Plenty of venomous snakes around here.

And these woods here, pygmy rattler, timber rattler, copperhead, cottonmouth.

Maybe there's an eastern diamondback, I'm not sure.

Beautiful little trail.