Day 8, tiny Elf Owl / Micrathene whitneyi - smalle…
Osprey pair harassed by Red-winged Blackbird
Osprey
Osprey
Osprey / Pandion haliaetus
Osprey with fish
Osprey with fish
Osprey with fish
Osprey with fish
Golden Eagle!
Swainson's Hawk, immature
Great Horned Owl - rehab
Osprey with a fish
Osprey with a fish
Red-tailed Hawk, watching for its next meal
Osprey
Osprey
Day 5, Harris's Hawk, King Ranch, Norias Division
Day 2, Crested Caracara immature / Caracara cheriw…
Day 2, Turkey Vulture / Cathartes aura
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
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
Great Horned Owl / Bubo virginianus
Northern Hawk Owl juevnile - from the archives
Barred Owl in FCPP - from the archives
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl - from January
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Prairie Falcon - Status: SENSITIVE, Species of Spe…
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Male Snowy Owl
Male Snowy Owl
Licorice Allsorts (candy) eyes
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Two-month-old American Kestrel
Swainson's Hawk watching for its next snack
Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Sleepy Barn Owl
How dare you take a photo of me looking like this?
I LOVE owls - in case you didn't know : )
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Osprey number 2 / Pandion haliaetus
A classic light/intermediate-morph adult Swainson'…
Ferruginous Hawks - now safely grown and gone
Ferruginous Hawk
Enjoying a good meal
Swainson's Hawk take-off
Great Horned Owlet
Great Horned Owlet
Ferruginous Hawk / Buteo regalis
Almost missed, but gratefully seen
One of yesterday's Great Horned Owls
Sleepy Great Horned Owl
Great Gray Owl
Burrowing owl in the wild
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Day 8, Harris's Hawk, Santa Ana NWR
While there is basically no activity on Flickr the last few days, I thought I would upload 23 more photos tonight, taken on 26 March 2019, at the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in South Texas. This Refuge stretches to the border with Mexico. Almost all the photos are simply record shots - those small birds were almost impossible to see and even more impossible to photograph. However, some of them are lifers, so I wanted to add them to my Albums. I only have about the same number of photos left to post from Day 8, so hopefully I will be able to move on to Day 9 pretty quickly.
As you can tell, I have finally managed to get back to sorting and editing a few more (15 + 11) photos taken on our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, 19-31 March 2019. Apart from yesterday, the last photos from this holiday were posted om 20 May, three weeks ago. These photos look so drab in comparison to the colourful local birds I have been posting recently. Actually, I think Day 8 and Day 9 are going to be similar, but then Day 10 will have more colourful Texas birds.
Despite the lack of close, colourful birds, Day 8 was an interesting day, spent at the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in South Texas. The forest was so different from anything I had ever seen, with Spanish Moss hanging from all the branches. It was quite a strange feeling to walk the trails,
"Established in 1943 for the protection of migratory birds, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge happens to be positioned along an east-west and north-south juncture of two major migratory routes for many species of birds. It is also at the northern-most point for many species whose range extends south into Central and South America. The refuge is right in the middle of all this biological diversity, which is what makes this 2,088 acre parcel the ‘jewel of the National Wildlife Refuge System.’ Though small in size, Santa Ana offers visitors an opportunity to see birds, butterflies and many other species not found anywhere else in the United States beyond deep South Texas." From link below.
www.fws.gov/refuge/Santa_Ana/map.html
As you can tell, I have finally managed to get back to sorting and editing a few more (15 + 11) photos taken on our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, 19-31 March 2019. Apart from yesterday, the last photos from this holiday were posted om 20 May, three weeks ago. These photos look so drab in comparison to the colourful local birds I have been posting recently. Actually, I think Day 8 and Day 9 are going to be similar, but then Day 10 will have more colourful Texas birds.
Despite the lack of close, colourful birds, Day 8 was an interesting day, spent at the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in South Texas. The forest was so different from anything I had ever seen, with Spanish Moss hanging from all the branches. It was quite a strange feeling to walk the trails,
"Established in 1943 for the protection of migratory birds, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge happens to be positioned along an east-west and north-south juncture of two major migratory routes for many species of birds. It is also at the northern-most point for many species whose range extends south into Central and South America. The refuge is right in the middle of all this biological diversity, which is what makes this 2,088 acre parcel the ‘jewel of the National Wildlife Refuge System.’ Though small in size, Santa Ana offers visitors an opportunity to see birds, butterflies and many other species not found anywhere else in the United States beyond deep South Texas." From link below.
www.fws.gov/refuge/Santa_Ana/map.html
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