Day 6, Purple Martin / Progne subis
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa vio…
Day 7, Northern Cardinal male
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
Common Grackle after a bath
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Mountain Bluebird male / Sialia currucoides
Mountain Bluebird male
Mountain Bluebird female
Mountain Bluebird male
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Rose-breasted Grosbeak male / Pheucticus ludovicia…
Tree Swallow
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
Yellow Warbler / Setophaga petechia
American Goldfinch female / Spinus tristis
Mountain Bluebird male / Sialia currucoides
Black Tern / Chlidonias niger
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Mountain Bluebird female / Sialia currucoides
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Red-winged Blackbird male / Agelaius phoeniceus
Day 8, tiny Elf Owl / Micrathene whitneyi - smalle…
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
Eastern Kingbird
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Osprey pair harassed by Red-winged Blackbird
Cedar Waxwing
Osprey
Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Osprey
Brown-headed Cowbird / Molothrus ater
Yellow Warbler / Setophaga petechia
Osprey / Pandion haliaetus
Mallard family swimming on the river
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
Day 9, Couch's Kingbird, Resaca de la Palma SP, Te…
Day 9, Great Crested Flycatcher / Myiarchus crinit…
Day 9, Couch's Kingbird / Tyrannus couchii, Resaca…
Day 9, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Resaca de la…
Mountain Bluebird male
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Mountain Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird with food for his babies
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus, on a windy…
Mountain Bluebird with Red-winged Grasshopper
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Snipe, having a stretch
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa vio…
Day 6, Purple Martin / Progne subis
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa vio…
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa vio…
Day 6, Purple Martin / Progne subis
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Herons
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Day 6, Northern Cardinal male / Cardinalis cardina…
Day 6, Golden-fronted Woodpecker male / Melanerpes…
Day 6, Great-tailed Grackle male / Quiscalus mexic…
Day 6, Plain Chachalaca / Ortalis vetula
Day 6, White-tipped Dove / Leptotila verreauxi
Day 6, Plain Chachalaca / Ortalis vetula
Day 7, Green Jay / Cyanocorax yncas
Day 6, Cardinal female / Cardinalis cardinalis
Day 6, Cardinal male, National Butterfly Centre, S…
Day 5, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, King Ranch, Nori…
Day 5, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, King Ranch
Day 5, Vermilion Flycatcher / Pyrocephalus rubinus…
Day 5, Harris's Hawk, King Ranch, Norias Division
Day 5, Bronzed Cowbirds / Molothrus aeneus
Mountain Bluebird male / Sialia currucoides
Tree Swallow male / Tachycineta bicolor
Day 4, Royal Terns / Thalasseus maximus, Mustang I…
Day 4, Laughing Gull / Leucophaeus atricilla, Must…
Day 4, Laughing Gulls, Mustang Island, Texas
Day 4, Royal Terns, Mustang Island, Texas
Day 4, Royal Tern / Thalasseus maximus, Mustang Is…
Day 4, Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Day 4, Common Gallinule, Leonabelle Turnbull Birdi…
Day 4, Black-bellied Whistling Duck / Dendrocygna…
Day 4, Common Gallinule, Leonabelle Turnbull Birdi…
Day 4, Loggerhead Shrike / Lanius ludovicianus, Po…
Day 4, Sedge Wren, Aransas Park
Day 3, nesting Great Blue Herons, Rockport rookery
Day 3, Double-crested Cormorants, Aransas boat tri…
Day 3, Cormorant drying its wings, Aransas boat tr…
Day 3, Whooping Crane colt flexing its wings, Aran…
Day 3, Whooping Crane colt, Aransas, Texas
Day 3, Whooping Crane adult, Aransas National Wild…
Day 3, leg band & tracking device, Whooping Crane…
Day 3, ENDANGERED Whooping Cranes / Grus americana…
Day 2, Crested Caracara immature / Caracara cheriw…
Day 2, Savannah Sparrows, Rockport, South Texas
Day 2, young White Ibis, Connie Hagar Cottage Sanc…
Day 2, Turkey Vulture / Cathartes aura
Day 2, Savannah Sparrow, South Texas
Day 1, Turkey Vultures / Cathartes aura
Day 6, Northern Cardinal male, southern Texas
Day 6, Green Jay / Cyanocorax yncas, southern Texa…
Great Gray Owl - from my archives
Short-eared Owl out on a tree limb
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Burrowing Owl, ENDANGERED - from the archives
Burrowing Owl, ENDANGERED - from the archives
Wilson's Snipe - from the archives
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
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Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa violacea
What a mess Flickr was the night before last! I had difficulty adding titles to my uploaded images, comments didn't save and, after I had added a description to each of the 20 photos, the descriptions all disappeared. When I opened Flickr next morning, there was still no sign of them. Then, suddenly, they re-appeared. I also discovered that all the hundreds of photos from this trip that I added to the map are no longer on the map!!! Someone on the Help Forum told someone else to refresh a page and the map will appear again - and it works. Now, I can't add photos to albums - it looks like they are added, but when I check the album, some of yesterda's photos had not appeared. Suddenly, now appeared. Also, my descriptions appeared in duplicate! Today, 13 May 2019, everything I try to do on Flickr takes a long time to do.
My photos taken at the National Butterfly Centre, Mission, South Texas, have now come to an end, so you can sigh a huge sigh of relief : ) Today I added 22 photos taken at another place that we called in at later in the afternoon, the Valley Nature Centre, in Weslaco. Unfortunately, we only had an hour there before closing time, but how glad we were that we found this place. The highlight there was watching 25 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons coming in to roost for the night in the trees, right where we were standing! What a great sight this was, and we were lucky enough to have a good, close view of these gorgeous birds, though in very poor light. We also saw some Purple Martins and their circular, hanging nesting "gourds".
On Day 6 of our birding holiday in South Texas, 24 March 2019, we left our hotel in Kingsville, South Texas, and started our drive to Mission, where we would be staying at La Quinta Inn & Suites for three nights. On the first stretch of our drive, we were lucky enough to see several bird species, including a Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Hooded Oriole, Red-tailed Hawk, Crested Caracara, Harris's Hawk, Pyrrhuloxia male (looks similar to a Cardinal) and a spectacular Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. This stretch is called Hawk Alley.
We had a long drive further south towards Mission, with only a couple of drive-by photos taken en route (of a strangely shaped building that turned out to be a huge, deserted seed storage building). Eventually, we reached our next planned stop, the National Butterfly Centre. This was a great place, my favourite part of it being the bird feeding station, where we saw all sorts of species and reasonably close. Despite the name of the place, we only saw a few butterflies while we were there. May have been the weather or, more likely, the fact that I was having so much fun at the bird feeding station. We also got to see Spike, a giant African Spurred Tortoise. All the nature/wildlife parks that we visited in South Texas had beautiful visitor centres and usually bird feeding stations. And there are so many of these parks - so impressive!
Tomorrow, I will be able to start sorting and editing images taken on Day 7 of our 13-day trip!
My photos taken at the National Butterfly Centre, Mission, South Texas, have now come to an end, so you can sigh a huge sigh of relief : ) Today I added 22 photos taken at another place that we called in at later in the afternoon, the Valley Nature Centre, in Weslaco. Unfortunately, we only had an hour there before closing time, but how glad we were that we found this place. The highlight there was watching 25 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons coming in to roost for the night in the trees, right where we were standing! What a great sight this was, and we were lucky enough to have a good, close view of these gorgeous birds, though in very poor light. We also saw some Purple Martins and their circular, hanging nesting "gourds".
On Day 6 of our birding holiday in South Texas, 24 March 2019, we left our hotel in Kingsville, South Texas, and started our drive to Mission, where we would be staying at La Quinta Inn & Suites for three nights. On the first stretch of our drive, we were lucky enough to see several bird species, including a Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Hooded Oriole, Red-tailed Hawk, Crested Caracara, Harris's Hawk, Pyrrhuloxia male (looks similar to a Cardinal) and a spectacular Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. This stretch is called Hawk Alley.
We had a long drive further south towards Mission, with only a couple of drive-by photos taken en route (of a strangely shaped building that turned out to be a huge, deserted seed storage building). Eventually, we reached our next planned stop, the National Butterfly Centre. This was a great place, my favourite part of it being the bird feeding station, where we saw all sorts of species and reasonably close. Despite the name of the place, we only saw a few butterflies while we were there. May have been the weather or, more likely, the fact that I was having so much fun at the bird feeding station. We also got to see Spike, a giant African Spurred Tortoise. All the nature/wildlife parks that we visited in South Texas had beautiful visitor centres and usually bird feeding stations. And there are so many of these parks - so impressive!
Tomorrow, I will be able to start sorting and editing images taken on Day 7 of our 13-day trip!
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