While walking along the Park Road between the river and the Hawkwatch Platform and field, I spotted dozens of Barn Swallows perched on the power lines....this is only between two poles...each section of power line poles had as many...hundreds if not a thousand!!!
BARN SWALLOWS
photo taken: Bazemore Park
habitat map:
Swallow
Sadly, so many think that Starlings are a nuisance, I don't! They have gorgeous plumage, they have a beautiful song, and they ARE part of our environment, so I enjoy them as much as any other bird!!!
EUROPEAN STARLING * * [see note below]
photo taken: Bazemore Park
habitat map:
Starling
These Doves are quite scarce in my neck of the woods, so when I see one, I'm thrilled.
WHITE TIPPED DOVE
photo taken: Bazemore Park
habitat map:
Dove
One of the first Autumn warbler migrants to stop over in the South Texas Coastal Bend. There were a couple of them taking advantage of the drip system just below the hawkwatch platform, in the shade of the mesquite trees. While one was on the edge of the dripping water, the other was in the tree.
BLACK and WHITE WARBLER
photo taken: Bazemore Park
habitat map:
Warbler
When I saw this heron along the boat jetty at Packery Channel, I immediately thought of Charlie Chaplin's stance while dressed in his striped pants and black jacket doing his hobo comedy routine. If you are too young to know who Charlie Chaplin is...
click here Even thinking of Mr. Chaplin and being brave enough to actually admit of remembering him in my youth, it DOES age me!! Think Silent Movies!!! Don't ask me why, 'cause I don't know why....then, when I was uploading it to this post, I had second thoughts...perhaps General MacArthur or Patton readying to make a speech before their battalion?
GREAT BLUE HERON
photo taken: Packery Channel
habitat map:
Heron
Tho this cattle egret is in breeding plumage...and late September, I'm guessing the species may have two breeding seasons in a year's time? Do they?
CATTLE EGRET
photo taken: Caribbean Drive Ponds
habitat map:
Egret
This too...there were two Spoonbills...and in a way, the activity [in September] resembled a courtship ritual?
ROSEATE SPOONBILL
photo taken: Caribbean Drive Ponds
habitat map:
Spoonbill
As I pulled off the road, onto the shoulder to get a photo of the hawk, it stopped searching the ground cover and watched ME watching it!!
WHITE TAILED HAWK
photo taken: Mustang Island Highway
habitat map:
Hawk
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I recently read a non-fiction book entitled Mozart's Starling! It was excellent. For any bird lover, or one interested just a tad bit of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [his trained starling, Star, and how the bird became a pet of Wolfgang's by mimicking one of his 'secret', yet unpublished, works at the pet store!! To the author training a starling,and studying her bird from taking it from a nest before it fledged --named Carmen]...also, her obsession to learn more about Star and Mozart's connection, she travels to his country and follows through with an incredible adventure of learning, education, and understanding not only his gift of music, but starlings and surmising that perhaps some of his music composition could be a result of the starling's song repertoire!! I highly recommend it to anyone remotely interested in the subjects of talking birds [starlings are highly adept in human speech or their habits], Mozart, and birds in general....think: Mozart's
Piano Concerto Number 17 in G
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another review
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