COMMON GALLINULE [moorhen]
Habitat map: Gallinule
NORTHERN HARRIER
Habitat map: Harrier
AMERICAN COOT
Habitat map: Coot
SNOWY EGRET
Habitat map: Egret
ROYAL TERN
Habitat map: Tern
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§ Harrier, Coot, Gallinule and More...
COMMON GALLINULE [moorhen]
Habitat map: Gallinule
NORTHERN HARRIER
Habitat map: Harrier
AMERICAN COOT
Habitat map: Coot
SNOWY EGRET
Habitat map: Egret
ROYAL TERN
Habitat map: Tern
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§ Water Birds....
The following images were all taken in one area of the Coastal Bend. All waterfowl of course since the area is a lake...
We are beginning to have much more comfortable weather. Still a bit summer like, but less humid! I will start feeling up to getting outdoors more now. Yay. And it's beginning to feel like the migratory paths will be filled with those flying south for the winter and stopping off in our spot of the world. I hope to see some good ones...
We are beginning to have much more comfortable weather. Still a bit summer like, but less humid! I will start feeling up to getting outdoors more now. Yay. And it's beginning to feel like the migratory paths will be filled with those flying south for the winter and stopping off in our spot of the world. I hope to see some good ones...
PIED BILLED GREBE
Habitat map: Grebe
BLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERON
Habitat map: Heron
COMMON GALINULE -aka Moorhen- and Teen
Habitat map: Gallinule
GREAT EGRET with catch of the day
Habitat map: Egret
AMERICAN COOT
Habitat map: Coot
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§ The Young and the Restless
I drove to the island and Port Aransas to go birding only once in the past few days. I stopped at only one wildlife refuge: Leonabelle Wildlife Refuge. This is what I came home with on my camera card. One I've been searching for and hoping to see again this July:
MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRD
photos: top two are juvenile [white head] and bottom two are adult [female?] -I believe the adult male is ALL black except with throat color change during breeding season.
Habitat map: Frigatebird
Length: 40 inches
Wingspan: 90 inches
COMMON MOORHEN [Gallinule]
photos: juveniles
Habitat map: Moorhen
Length: 14 inches
Wingspan: 20-22 inches
BROWN PELICAN
photos: Top, adult...bottom, juvenile
Habitat map: Pelican
Length: 50 inches
Wingspan: 82 inches
BARN SWALLOW
photo: juvenile
Habitat map: Swallow
Length: 7.5 inches
Wingspan: 13 inches
AMERICAN COOT
photos: chicks
Habitat map: Coot
Length: 15 inches
Wingspan: 25 inches
...following is a "new" bird for me [age wise]. I have record of seeing one before, but I'm still not sure what year plumage, or if it may have been a Great Black Backed Gull. Maybe you'd help me confirm? They're a bit uncommon in my area of Texas.
LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL
photos: 1st year plumage
Habitat map: Gull
Length: 22 inches
Wingspan: 54 inches
Note: I did drive to Whitecap Beach [on the islands] yesterday to check the Gulf Waters for any tropical storm wave action before they closed the beaches. Today, the storm should make landfall near Corpus Christi at the status of category 1...Hurricane Hanna
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Participating this week:
Gina
Bird Loving Nana
A Quiet Corner
Arun
Linda, Virginia, USA
Jean@SoNotOrganized
Terri @ Coloring Outside The Lines
Birds Seen in Europe and Africa
Traveling With Birds [no hyperlink used]
Eileen
Rosyfinch Ramblings
Lavender Dreams
Phil UK
Lea's Menagerie
§ the Call of the Wild....
We are now under "house arrest" here in Corpus Christi, some areas are closed for safety precautions of the virus. Our county now has ten reported cases, and they are in quarantine...nine of the ten are travel related Tsk, tsk. If people would just stay close to home and use the distance safety tips, it'd help with the pandemic. The good thing about birding is you don't have to be out in the open; in crowds...in fact, drive by birding is an acceptable pastime these days. Much better than resorting to cleaning house!!
The first bird I am sharing, I can't help it...I think they're pretty and they have a wonderful, soft, soothing song. Even if they're 'the impalers'...they are one of nature's wonders. Of course, each of the species of birds is, in my opinion. Except for the vultures, but they serve their purpose on earth, so you still have to appreciate them. It's the individual features of each bird [and their survival capability] that never ceases to astound me.
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE
photo taken: South Bay Park
habitat map: Shrike
length: 9 inches
wingspan: 13 inches
At the hightower for observation [click here for tower photo], the black vultures were gathered in large groups [called committee], and singly spotted here and there in the undergrowth....
BLACK VULTURES
photos taken: Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
note: this refuge along the coastal bend is nearly 120,000 acres with hundreds of species of birds/wildlife
habitat map: Vulture
length: 25 inches
wingspan: 60 inches
I am thrilled to capture this with its 'hood ornament' exposed!
HOODED MERGANSER
photo taken: Bazemore Park
habitat map: Merganser
length: 18 inches
wingspan: 25 inches
Another bird that gets a bum wrap like the shrike [for different reasons] is the American Coot. Again, I marvel at its adaptability to conquer the different terrains along the ponds' edge and walk through quagmire without loosing its footing...
AMERICAN COOT
photo taken: Caribbean Drive [Flour Bluff, Texas]
habitat map: Coot
length: 15 inches
wingspan: 25 inches
This bird is quite easily identified...it is aptly named ...
NORTHERN PINTAIL DUCK
photo taken: Indian Point Park
habitat map: Pintail
length: 20-26 inches
wingspan: 28-36 inches
When I spotted this hawk, I was in awe of its beautiful plumage! Such wonderful colors and pattern. And for a few minutes it posed for me before flying off. I was on foot, and just under by a marginal few feet from its perch...
RED SHOULDERED HAWK
photos taken: Lakeview Park
habitat map: Hawk
length: 17-22 inches
wingspan: 32-45 inches
Participating this week:
Little Wandering Wren
Rosyfinch Ramblings
Lintuilua-Birding
Linda, Virginia, USA
The Early Birder
Lavender Dreams
Phil UK
Lea's Menagerie
Tomthebackroadstraveler
Sallie
Birds Seen in Europe and Africa
Eileen
Wren Nest Building
Traveling With Birds
§ Port Aransas
I know I sound like a broken record....but, here in Coastal Texas, it remains too hot! And no rain in sight. Recently at Port Aransas, I saw...
WHITE IBIS
photo taken: Leonabelle Refuge
habitat map: Ibis
LITTLE GREEN HERON
photo taken: Paradise Pond
habitat map: Heron
A Flock of CORMORANTS
habitat map: Cormorant
AMERICAN COOT CHICK
photo taken: Leonabelle Refuge
habitat map: Coot
TURKEY VULTURE
photo taken: Port A Ship Channel
habitat map: Vulture
BROWN PELICANS
photo taken: Port A Ship Channel
habitat map: Pelican
[outlined unknown bird perhaps?]
LITTLE BLUE HERON
photo taken: Leonabelle Refuge
habitat map: Heron
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WHITE IBIS
photo taken: Leonabelle Refuge
habitat map: Ibis
LITTLE GREEN HERON
photo taken: Paradise Pond
habitat map: Heron
A Flock of CORMORANTS
[ A group of cormorants has many collective nouns, including a "flight", "gulp", "rookery", "sunning", and "swim" of cormorants. source: Whatbird.com]
photo taken: Leonabelle Refugehabitat map: Cormorant
AMERICAN COOT CHICK
photo taken: Leonabelle Refuge
habitat map: Coot
At the Ship Channel nearing the Entrance to Charlie's Pasture [still closed from hurricane damage in 2017], I spied a large number of Brown Pelicans...as I pulled off the channel access road, just inches from the car, a Turkey Vulture was perched near a picnic table...I rolled down my window and snapped this close up....
TURKEY VULTURE
photo taken: Port A Ship Channel
habitat map: Vulture
...and this was the large congregation of brown pelicans. Once I got home and took the image from the memory card, I noticed something I missed while there with my camera at the time...look to the right side of the image, see the white breasted bird? Or what I think is white breasted....is that a booby perhaps? Or just another pelican turned at an odd angle...but wait, pelicans have white breasts? No. [The image following this one has an outline...it is larger than this photo so, if you choose...enlarge it and see what you think!!!
BROWN PELICANS
photo taken: Port A Ship Channel
habitat map: Pelican
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LITTLE BLUE HERON
photo taken: Leonabelle Refuge
habitat map: Heron
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