Coastal Birds...

As I frequently do, I check the hot spots of birding within a 50 mile radius to read what birds have been seen in a 5 day time frame. Recently, a couple of popular birding areas at Port Aransas have been listed. They're open? Well, kinda sorta!! The two in this area are getting cleaned up, but so much damage from the August, summer's hurricane! I drove there last Sunday morning, early. Yes, they are accessible for the first time in three months....but, PARTIALLY. At Leonabelle Birding Center, the boardwalk goes only a few feet into the pond area....the observation tower is in disrepair, hundreds of feet of the boardwalk no longer exist. Several trees that was a popular place for the migrant birds in the Spring and Autumn are gone....In fact, see for yourself; the damage, by clicking HERE [before Hurricane Harvey & after]. Paradise Pond, further down the road from Leonabelle's is slowly being cleared out of the debris, but oh....the downed trees!!

Anyway, I thought I'd just post an eclectic page from my photo album folder, some of the birds I've seen in the last week:

LAUGHING GULL
photo taken:  Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi
habitat:  Gull


WHITE PELICAN
photo taken:  NAS, Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map:  Pelican




INCA DOVE
photo taken:  Hans Suter Refuge, Corpus Christi, Texas

habitat map:  Dove

BLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERON
photo taken:  Paradise Pond, Port A, Texas
habitat map:  Heron


TRI-COLORED HERON
photo taken:  Leonabelle Birding Center, Port A, Texas
habitat map:  Heron


WHITE IBIS
photo taken:  Lakeview Park, Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map:  Ibis


AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS
photo taken:  Ocean Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map:  Oystercatcher


FORSTER'S TERN
photo taken:  Port A, Texas
habitat map:  Tern


LITTLE BLUE HERON
photo taken:  Hans Suter Refuge
habitat map:  Heron


RING BILLED GULL
photo taken:  Port A, Texas
habitat map:  Gull



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