Archive for March, 2011

Chasing Birds in South Texas–Part 3

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Sandhill Cranes

Pied-billed Grebe

 

Plain Chachalaca

Redhead

Roseate Spoonbill

Sanderlings

Skimmer

Snowy Egret

Tricolored Heron

Vermillion Flycatcher

White Ibis

White Ibis Juvenile

White Ibis, Reg Egret, and Little Blue Heron

Whooping Crane

Whooping Crane take-off

Whooping Crane with Blue Crab

Willets

Wilson's Snipe

 

Yellowlegs

Yellowlegs

Chasing Birds in South Texas–Part 2

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

For a good description of the Road Scholar (Elderhostel) trip in Brownsville, see this post by Jeanne Heuer.

Harris Hawk

 

Killdeer

 

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

 

Laughing Gull

 

Laughing Gulls

 

Laughing Gulls beginning to get red beaks as part of their breeding plummage

 

Lesser Scaup

 

Little Blue Heron

 

Loggerhead Shrike

 

Long-billed Curlew

Long-billed Curlew with Crab

Long-billed Thrasher

Merlin

Mottled Duck

Mottled Ducks and Mallard

Northern Cardinal

Northern Shoveler

Olive Sparrow

Chasing Birds in South Texas

Friday, March 4th, 2011

I recently spent two weeks birding in the Corpus Christi and Brownsville areas, where I logged around 120 species.  Here are some of my best pictures.

Altamira Oriole

 

American Kestrel

 

American Pipit

 

American Wigeon and Black-necked Stilts

 

Anhinga

 

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

 

Blue-winged Teal

 

Brown Pelican

 

Cattle Egret

 

Cinnamon Teal

 

Common Moorhen

 

Couch's Kingbird

Crested Caracara

 

Curve-billed Thrasher

Double-crested & Neotropical Cormorants

 

Double-crested Cormorant

 

Eastern Meadowlark

 

Eastern Meadowlark 2

 

Eastern Phoebe

 

Fulvous Whistling Duck

 

Great & Snowy Egrets

 

Great Blue Heron

 

Great Blue Heron 2

 

Greater Kiskadee

 

Great-tailed Grackle

 

Green Jay

 

Green-winged Teal

 

More to come–