Just returned from my first time birding High Island, Texas, during spring migration. Sharing my tips for birding the refuges in the High Island/Sabine Pass area plus info on where to stay and food.
Category Archives: Birds
Spread Your Wings: Bird Watching Part 2
Spread your wings and learn a few more bird watching tips and tricks with this bird watching guide.
Just Hatched: A Beginner’s Guide to Birding
If you like birds but don’t know much about them, it’s time to launch a new hobby with this beginner’s guide to birding.
New Year’s Reset
The holidays are behind us so it’s time for a New Year’s Reset. Once Upon A Frittata is here to help! More healthy recipes, birds and books are coming in 2024.
BWIAB 2023
Just back from Biggest Week in American Birding 2023 (BWIAB). I had doubts about attending the same festival two years in a row, but it did not disappoint.
Arriving At The Vortex
Cathedral Rock, Sedona Arizona Welcome to Sedona, Arizona! For those who have not been here, this is a pretty magical place. Sedona is famous for being one of the locations on this earth that is a center of our planet’s health and spiritual energy, otherwise known as a vortex. I thought it was the perfectContinueContinue reading “Arriving At The Vortex”
When Nature Calls
Frittata Cross Country is finally heading west!! First stop Ohio. Lake Erie. It’s time for BWIAB!! For those who did not bother to Google this at the end of my last post, that stands for “Biggest Week In American Birding”!! The southwestern tip of Lake Erie gets famous for about 10 days a year (theContinueContinue reading “When Nature Calls”
There Must Be Something In The Water
After my visit to Everglades National Park in south Florida, the plan was to drive up the east coast and visit Merritt Island NWR. This is another drive-thru park where you weave through wetlands for wildlife viewing. I did it years ago with my Dad and it was really cool so since I was headedContinueContinue reading “There Must Be Something In The Water”
The Golden Door – No Ordinary Moments
There are no ordinary moments in life. We are just too busy thinking or talking or worrying or texting to notice most of them. Prayers Answered My mom passed away last month after a 4 year battle with cancer. She was as stubborn on the way out as she was in her prime. Or maybeContinueContinue reading “The Golden Door – No Ordinary Moments”
What It Means To Leave New Orleans
Once Upon A Frittata, 19 years ago, I gave up a job I loved in Florida and followed a boy to New Orleans. They call it the Big Easy. But it wasn’t. Sweat Lodge I was officially initiated into Louisiana summer by having the Florida orange juice sweat right out of me. You eventually getContinueContinue reading “What It Means To Leave New Orleans”


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