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§ Four Photos...
Bud and I finished the living room update. Painting is done, new wiring is done, furniture is moved around, curtain and curtain rods are hung...and our walls are decorated with art work! Done, done, done. I am thinking seriously of taking a few weeks off before we begin in the bedrooms and master bath! I want to see some birds...alive, and in person. It's been way too long since I've been out and about in the fresh air and sunshine!!! This post will be the last of the three week series of photos from my book...
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§ Around Town...
Last week I shared one bird I'd been searching for for nearly 10 years!!! The Mississippi Kite!!
JUVENILE REDDISH EGRET
photos taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Egret
JUVENILE NORTHERN CARDINAL
photo taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Cardinal
BLACK CRESTED TITMOUSE
photo taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Titmouse
JUVENILE BALTIMORE ORIOLE
photo taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Oriole
YELLOW CROWNED NIGHT HERON
photo taken: Pollywog Ponds
habitat map: Heron
RUBY THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
photos taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Hummingbird
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
photos taken: Indian Point Park
habitat map: Nighthawk
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These photos were taken in one day's trip around town. At Bazemore Park, I 'scored' most sightings! Other than those listed below in photos, I also caught sight of grackles, doves, stilts, snowy egrets, killdeer, mockingbirds, starlings, cormorants, tri-colored herons, sparrows, ducks, crested caracaras, and scissortailed flycatchers...
JUVENILE REDDISH EGRET
photos taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Egret
JUVENILE NORTHERN CARDINAL
photo taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Cardinal
BLACK CRESTED TITMOUSE
photo taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Titmouse
JUVENILE BALTIMORE ORIOLE
photo taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Oriole
YELLOW CROWNED NIGHT HERON
photo taken: Pollywog Ponds
habitat map: Heron
RUBY THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
photos taken: Hazel Bazemore Park
habitat map: Hummingbird
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
photos taken: Indian Point Park
habitat map: Nighthawk
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§ On a County Road
Along the shoulder of the road, a hawk posed for me!!
BROAD WINGED HAWK
I believe it's immature by the way it was fumbling while hunting.
photo taken: County Road 6 Chapman Ranch - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map: hawk
Last Saturday morning, the air was hot and very humid. After a severe flooding at the beginning of the week, we hadn't seen too many birds out and about. And, at such an early hour, just before daybreak, we didn't expect many on this morning. We took to the county roads towards Chapman Ranch area [south of Corpus Christi]. Mainly 'cause it was a weekend, and we didn't want to deal with any heavy traffic on the island since there was a Beach to Bay Marathon scheduled for the only highway along the coast. The first two county roads were paved. The adjacent fields were still flooded in some spots from the rain on Monday. We turned off the road and headed onto a caliche farm road. In some spots the road was swamped but we got through to the dead end and this was posted [photo above].
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
photos taken: County Road 6 - Chapman Ranch, Corpus Christi Texas
habitat map: godwit
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
photos taken: Chapman Ranch - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map: nighthawk
Ending my walking along the road, Bud got my attention and pointed upward toward the power pole...
photo taken: Chapman Ranch - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map: caracara
photo taken: Chapman Ranch - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map: ibis
...back in the comfort of the car, the air conditioner was full blast and we headed back to the city! I was totally a happy birder finding a 'new' species after years of searching....the Hudsonian Godwit.
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BROAD WINGED HAWK
I believe it's immature by the way it was fumbling while hunting.
photo taken: County Road 6 Chapman Ranch - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map: hawk
Last Saturday morning, the air was hot and very humid. After a severe flooding at the beginning of the week, we hadn't seen too many birds out and about. And, at such an early hour, just before daybreak, we didn't expect many on this morning. We took to the county roads towards Chapman Ranch area [south of Corpus Christi]. Mainly 'cause it was a weekend, and we didn't want to deal with any heavy traffic on the island since there was a Beach to Bay Marathon scheduled for the only highway along the coast. The first two county roads were paved. The adjacent fields were still flooded in some spots from the rain on Monday. We turned off the road and headed onto a caliche farm road. In some spots the road was swamped but we got through to the dead end and this was posted [photo above].The farmland to the right was swampy; standing water here and there. The birdsong was pleasing to the ears. The mosquitoes were ferociously ravenous!! Still, I got out of the car and walked along the road searching the open land in hopes of spotting something. The first bird I saw was a wader...a black necked stilt. In fact several were foraging in the water-laden field. Then, I spotted a few dark moving objects and figured they were birds. I lifted my binoculars for a better view since they were quite some distance from the road....Indeed they were birds. A near rarity. And ONE species I've longed to find on our excursions over the years!!! The Hudsonian Godwit! And some were still in breeding plumage!! I took a few photos even tho they were well 'hidden' in the high grasses...
All too quickly something spooked them and they flew off to land at such a distance I would've needed my tripod and set it up. I was lazy. Didn't go back to get the stand that's in the trunk of the car. I was satisfied to have seen the elusive Godwit as it was.
HUDSONIAN GODWIT
photos taken: County Road 6 - Chapman Ranch, Corpus Christi Texas
habitat map: godwit
By this time, the humidity was getting heavier and I couldn't focus well for the fact sweat was running in my eyes. I turned back to the car where Bud was searching other areas nearby. Along the fence line between where I stopped to photograph the Godwits and the car, another bird caught my eye! Tho by all means it knew I was there, it didn't move a muscle...
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
photos taken: Chapman Ranch - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map: nighthawk
Ending my walking along the road, Bud got my attention and pointed upward toward the power pole...
photo taken: Chapman Ranch - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map: caracara
Just as we were getting in the car to leave, two Glossy Ibis flew into the area to have breakfast. There are three species of Ibis found in Texas. The White, seen very often, the White Faced Ibis, and then there is the Glossy Ibis. Most often in North America the Glossy Ibis is found around Florida and the Atlantic Coast; seldom seen in Texas. The two, most prevalent identifying and differentiating points with the Glossy and the White Faced...they are VERY similar... are eye color and facial markings. The Glossy Ibis has brown eyes with no eye ring, while the White Faced has red eyes surrounded by light 'white-pink' partial eye-ring...
photo taken: Chapman Ranch - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat map: ibis
...back in the comfort of the car, the air conditioner was full blast and we headed back to the city! I was totally a happy birder finding a 'new' species after years of searching....the Hudsonian Godwit.
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§ Three in a Cemetery...
The most recent listing of North American Birds that are endangered of becoming extinct and/or possibly extinct has been compiled. It's alarming that there are so many!!! READ HERE [pdf file]
The reason I mentioned this list today is for the fact one bird that was reported seen in our city's cemetery a couple of weeks ago is on this list. I and Bud drove there and walked around the area where it was seen. We just may have spotted it in the thick tree canopy above the mausoleum but we were never sure...even with binoculars, the bird just never stayed in one place long enough to focus on it. The bird reported in the cemetery was a Cerulean Warbler. A male...bright blue markings and very pretty. According to the printed pdf file I linked above, this particular warbler is thought to be endangered.
Well, with the heat index that day being high and dangerous, we didn't want to stand still very long without getting more protection away from the inferno. We began to walk back to where we parked our car and between the mausoleum and our car, I spotted these...
This Golden Fronted Woodpecker was just sitting pretty among the headstones...
...then as Bud was reading some inscription on a headstone, I spotted a large shadow zipping across the sky and I followed it best I could. As I watched it land, I walked behind a large Live Oak and stood quietly as it devoured its breakfast. [see in its beak/ and between its talons]
...eventually it spied me, finished eating and left. A Young Cooper's Hawk
Two other birds showed up! One flew just over my left shoulder as I was stalking the Cooper's. As I turned to follow its flight to see where it ended up to perch, I spied a 2nd Cooper's Hawk [adult] through the fork in the Oak I was standing behind!! It was watching [teaching?] the juvenile....
When I first saw this bird high above me as it flew to a tree, I thought it was a Chuck Will's Widow until I saw the color through the lens. Then, my uneducated guess was a Whippoorwill, but only for a fleeting glance as it flew away and I saw the wing stripes...a Common Nighthawk.
...and these two images above are of the adult Copper's Hawk that was nearby in a tree very close to the young Cooper's Hawk that was scoffing down its morning meal. By then, we were again headed back to the car and some much needed air conditioning!!
COOPER'S HAWK[s]
photos taken: Rosehill Cemetery - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat range: Cooper's Hawk
COMMON NIGHTHAWK
photo taken: Rosehill Cemetery - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat range: Common Nighthawk
GOLDEN FRONTED WOODPECKER
photo taken: Rosehill Cemetery - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat range: Golden Fronted Woodpecker
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§ Your mission if you choose to accept...find the bird--
NOTE: On my personal blog, today, I have a bird image I took last week at Lakeview Park here in town. The bird is nearly camouflaged - like hunting for the renowned children's hidden objects in the book...WHERE'S WALDO. If you'd care to give a go at finding it...be my guest LINK WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW. Click on the thumbnail image below, or skim down to view my other bird photos for the day [or both]:
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ROSEATE SPOONBILL[s]
Oso Bay Observation Deck - Corpus Christi, Texas
BROWN THRASHER
photo taken: Hans Suter Preserve - Corpus Christi, Texas
habitat range map:
COMMON NIGHTHAWK [aka goatsucker]
photo taken: Charlie's Pasture Reserve - Port Aransas, Texas
[common nighthawk and lesser nighthawk are similar except for the white on the wingbar - common nighthawk the white is more centralized - lesser nighthawk the white is closer to the tip of the wing]
GOLDEN FRONTED WOODPECKER
Hans Suter Preserve - Corpus Christi, Texas
TROPICAL KINGBIRD
photo taken: Hans Suter Preserve - Corpus Christi, Texas [last July]
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Another confusing bird to ID --all the references to the habitat range shows that tropical kingbirds are 'non-existent' in my area. But then again, the Wood Stork habitat range didn't show Coastal Texas as being in their range either and we saw one last year [no doubt in my mind and yours if you know what a wood stork looks like]...but, the tropical kingbird's color and markings with the descriptions online show me 99% of the info matches...you decide. According to two bird guide books and wikipedia: An adult Tropical Kingbird is 22 cm long and weighs 39 g. The head is pale grey [check], with a darker eye mask [check], an orange crown stripe [check...it did have this, but nearly invisible in my photo because of the angle], and a heavy grey bill [check]. The back is greyish-green [check], and the wing and forked tail are brown [check]. The throat is pale grey, becoming olive on the breast, with the rest of the underparts being yellow [checkmate!]. The sexes are similar, but young birds have pale buff edges on the wing coverts.
So, I did some online digging, and found this helpful site that may come in handy enough that I added it to my sidebar for future use. eBird Range Map It shows the percentage of sightings in a certain area around the world of any bird that you care to research. Arrows show the area I live, and on the right side of the graphic, it shows a percentage of 0-25% possibility....
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