§ Expressions...

...What are they thinking? Maybe....


Wow...Tom Brady's hot!


Move over beast...I want to arrive early for the "Blue" Plate Special!


I think I bit off more than I could chew...wait, I have NO TEETH!


What's all the hoopla?


Hear Ye, Hear Ye, the Red Wings won!


These balloons over USA are beginning to ruffle my feathers!


Top to Bottom -And their habitat maps:
Reddish Egret
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Red Winged Blackbird
Snowy Egret




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§ Archive Images...

...I'm finding no time to go birding...busy each day painting interior of all rooms in our house!!! Bud is rewiring the outlets and light switches. Kinda too busy to do much of anything else.

BLACK BELLIED WHISTLING DUCKS
Habitat map: Duck


BLACK TERN
Habitat map: Tern


DUNLIN
Habitat map: Dunlin


LONG BILLED DOWITCHER
Habitat map: Dowitcher


RED WINGED BLACKBIRD
Habitat map: Blackbird


STILT SANDPIPER
Habitat map: Sandpiper



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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:

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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§ Island Birds Seen...

It all boils down to a few "different birds" this week. Not new birds mind you, but ones I haven't seen for some time. Starting with the Yellowheaded Blackbird. It's usually seen here in mid-March. Early. And the Wilson's Snipe was ground feeding [naturally] out in the open. I had a good opportunity to follow it in action without going into hiding for quite a while. The Great Egret was spotted in a different area for me...Paradise Pointe [it's a residential area that has homes along the waterway]. The GRUMPY EGRET was a bit on the perturbed side of its morning. A Tri-colored Heron had caught a fish, and the egret was chasing after, to no avail...hence, the grumpy look [snowy egret]. And lastly, the Red Winged Blackbird was in amongst the others of his own kind, and the yellowheaded. All photos are from Port Aransas, Texas.

YELLOW HEADED BLACKBIRD
Habitat map: Blackbird


WILSON'S SNIPE
Habitat map: Snipe


GREAT EGRET
Habitat map: Egret


RED WINGED BLACKBIRD
Habitat map: Blackbird


GRUMPY EGRET [aka Snowy Egret]
Habitat map: Egret


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§ Island Birds...

This week's birding took place at Port Aransas once again. I stopped at Leonabelle Refuge, Paradise Pond, and a small gazebo along the highway that is situated across the street from the post office as I left town...


GADWALL [duck]
Habitat map: Gadwall


GREEN WINGED TEAL
Habitat map: Teal


AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
Habitat map: Pelican


Neotropic CORMORANT
Habitat map: Cormorant


GOLDEN FRONTED WOODPECKER
Habitat map: Woodpecker


RED WINGED BLACKBIRD
Habitat map: Blackbird



AMERICAN BITTERN
Habitat map: Bittern [top photo its very camouflaged ---look behind the log!]


GREAT EGRET
Habitat map: Egret


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