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§ Local Sightings...
Not much traveling around the county or on the islands this week. These photos were taken just minutes away from home...
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§ The Heat is On....
Sounding like a broken 'record'...the song: "The Heat is On!". Yep, still we swelter with no cold [or even a cool] front moving in in the near future. Of course, that's South Texas in summer. But, I'll be happy when November moves in and the hurricane season slows down to nothing threatening the Texas coast with Gulf temps reaching the magical number: 80°F. Once water surface temps drop to eighty or below, no hurricanes. And the air dries up and cooler nights and days. Now, I just don't get out much these days to walk or go birding. And if I do venture out, I'm not out long and most birds are finding cooler areas too; very few seen. So...
These photos [I'm not sure about the hawk IDs] are from weeks past; early Spring:
These photos [I'm not sure about the hawk IDs] are from weeks past; early Spring:
SHARP SHINNED HAWK [?]
Habitat map: Hawk
RED SHOULDERED HAWK [Juvenile?]
Habitat map: Hawk
DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANT
Habitat map: Cormorant
RED WINGED BLACKBIRD
Habitat map: Blackbird
BLACK SKIMMER
Habitat map: Skimmer
GREAT BLUE HERON
Habitat map: Heron
SPOTTED SANDPIPER
Habitat map: Sandpiper
COMMON GALLINULE [Moorhen]
Habitat map: Gallinule
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COMMON GALLINULE [Moorhen]
Habitat map: Gallinule
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§ This Month in South Texas...
It's been a wet week. But, we didn't get the full strength of Tropical Storm Beta afterall. We did get angry seas [I went out Sunday early to check the surf...see some of my photos taken. here if you'd like]. By Monday morning, the winds picked up and rain fell. Only a couple days of coastal flooding. We here in Corpus Christi, let out a deep sigh of relief!! Even, tho, we all who live along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts know the season isn't over yet. Here are some more September birds seen in my neck of the woods...
photo taken: Blucher Park
habitat map: Vireo
SCISSOR TAILED FLYCATCHER
photo taken: Chapman's Ranch
habitat map: Flycatcher
YELLOW WARBLER
Port Aransas Texas
habitat map: Warbler
COOPER'S HAWK
photo taken: County Road, Corpus Christi
habitat map: Hawk
SPOTTED SANDPIPER
photo taken: South Bay Park
habitat map: Sandpiper
GREAT KISKADEE
photo taken: Bazemore Park
habitat map: Kiskadee
NOTE: I subscribe to the magazine Birds and Blooms, and the latest issue [October/November issue] delivered to my mailbox, I learned something about the Kiskadee I thought may be of interest to others. And that is that the Kiskadee used to have a different name: Derby Flycatcher
MYRTLE WARBLER*
photo taken: Packery Channel
habitat map: Warbler
TRI-COLORED HERON
photo taken: Oso Bay Wetlands
habitat map: Heron
* Also known as Yellow Rumped Warbler & Butter Butt Warbler
§ Staying Inside Order [Texas Style]
Once again, a drive to the ranch land for photo ops as I practice 'staying inside the car' on drive by shootings [through the lens of course]. These birds were spotted as I took different county roads -34,000 acres (138 km)- a few miles from home one afternoon this week. You could drive from sun up to sun down on this ranch land and still not cover it all...Chapman's Ranch....
COOPER'S HAWK
habitat map: Hawk
Length: 15-20 inches
Wingspan: 28-34 inches
UPLAND SANDPIPER
habitat map: Sandpiper
Length: 12 inches
Wingspan: 18-20 inches
WHITE TAILED HAWK
habitat map: Hawk
Length: 20 inches
Wingspan: 50 inches
LARK SPARROW
habitat map: Sparrow
Length: 6.5 inches
Wingspan: 11 inches
MEADOWLARK
habitat map: Lark
Length: 10 inches
Wingspan: 14-16 inches
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE
habitat map: Shrike
Length: 9 inches
Wingspan: 13 inches
If you're curious, we are allowed to get out of the house; walking in parks and natural refuges as long as we keep our 6-10 foot "social distancing" of each other. So many states have the stay at home ordinance/laws enforced during these trying times, everywhere but grocery stores and doctors. Here, in Texas, the government officials see that walking in parks [exercise and fresh air] is safer than in petri-dishes like doctors' offices, stores, and hospitals!!! Thank goodness. Although, I still remain more cautious than before and not go out EVERY day for hours at a time as before the pandemic. Nor do I go to congested city parks...I find the out of populace areas; more remote and less known.
Those participating this week are:
A Quiet Corner
Anu
Birds Seen in Europe and Africa
Jenn Jilks
Linda, Virginia, USA
Travels With Birds [no hyperlink]
Tomthebackroadstraveler
NatureFootstep PhotoArt
Eileen
Ella
Jean@SoNotOrganized
Not Afraid of Color
Phil UK
The Early Birder
Rosyfinch Ramblings
Lavender Dreams
DeniseVA
Lea's Menagerie
§ Caribbean Drive Sightings
I'm going to try and simplify my blog look this coming new year, so I'm trying out different photo frames along with plain watermarks and less dense headers that I've been working on in my software program for the last month or so, and I will be testing different ones out here and there on both my blogs. I'm liking this framing best so far. So, bear with me.
This past week, after the dense fog lifted, I stopped at a large, private, lake on Caribbean Drive in Flour Bluff Texas [a suburb of Corpus Christi] on the way home from the islands. I was amazed with all the variety of birds that morning. Actually, I didn't know where to look at times, there were so many!! I saw more species than what I share today. Perhaps I'll add the rest of the birds next week in my post for then. In the meantime, check 'em out....
MYRTLE WARBLER [aka Yellow Rumped]
habitat map: Warbler
SCISSOR TAILED FLYCATCHER
habitat map: Flycatcher
REDDISH EGRET [white morph]
habitat map: Egret
SANDHILL CRANE
habitat map: Crane
KILLDEER
habitat map: Killdeer
AMERICAN PIPIT
habitat map: Pipit
LINCOLN'S SPARROW [?]
habitat map: Sparrow
COOPER'S HAWK [immature?]
habitat map: Hawk
Participants this week:
Lea's Menagerie
Birds Seen in Europe and Africa
Travels With Birds
Rosyfinch Ramblings
Phil UK
Lavender Dreams
Linda, Virginia USA
Crafty Gardener
Cranium Bolts
Lois, Tallahassee
Christina, Sweden
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