On the Ponds and Along the Shore...

This will be a 'busy', heavy-with-photos blog today, so I'll just state that all these birds were viewed on one morning the first week of August at Port Aransas...Leonabelle Refuge, Paradise Pond, and the beach along the Gulf of Mexico.  When I arrived just as the sun was rising, Leonabelle was most busy with great blue herons, cormorants, stilts, spoonbills [and a few ducks].  On my second stop for the day, Paradise Pond, the drying up pool was LOADED with white ibis and egrets!  Literally dozens; each species!  And the beach was occupied by terns, seagulls and sandpipers.

TRI-COLORED HERON
photos taken:  Leonabelle Refuge
habitat map:  Heron


GREAT BLUE HERON
photos taken:  Leonabelle Refuge
habitat map:  Heron



WESTERN SANDPIPER
photos taken:  Magee Beach
habitat map:  Sandpiper


RING BILLED SEAGULL
photo taken:  Magee Beach
habitat map:  Seagull


LESSER YELLOWLEGS
photo taken:  Paradise Pond
habitat map:  Yellowlegs


SNOWY EGRET
photo taken:  Paradise Pond
habitat map:  Egret


WHITE IBIS [immature]
photo taken:  Paradise Pond
habitat map:  Ibis


SNOWY EGRET
photo taken:  Paradise Pond
habitat map:  Egret







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