This past week, one day, I drove to the islands to do a bit of birding. I've actually changed my title passion from bird watcher to bird chaser! It seems lately, that's all I've been doing. The weather is much more Autumn like in South Texas. 60s in the early morning hours. NICE!! Anyway, I stopped at Leonabelle Birding Center. There was some water fowl on the lake, and a few early migrants along the path TO the lake. But, the migrants were warblers, and I couldn't catch a break...or a bird for that matter, in my camera frame. They were VERY flitty. The lake was rather quiet at that hour too. So, I walked across the street from Leonabelle's to the area that at times of the rainy season, is filled with shallow water...this week, it was mudflats. I walked onto the flats from the road and went behind the hills and tall grasses to other hidden ponds. Gulls and a few stilts were seen. As I turned to head back to the Birding Center, not seen at first behind all the Spanish Dagger plants...that's when I spied about 50-75 White Ibis hidden from the road's view! Among them were [each are linked to their habitat map] grackles, yellowlegs, stilts, snowy egrets, great egrets, and one lone Reddish Egret and one solitary Spoonbill. I snapped some images thru the viewfinder then set the camera on video recorder...
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