Thursday, November 29, 2018

Last days at Bentsen Palm

Green Jay comes for his close-up photo


Tomorrow is our last day at Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort and our favorite park, Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park.  We go to South Padre Island for two months and Weslaco for February before returning for Spring Hawk Watch.
Feeding area at the National Butterfly Garden

Sharp-shinned Hawk grabs a Barn Swallow for breakfast

Green Peach Beetle - looks like a Packer fan!

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Texas Fox Squirrel enjoys a snack

Lesser Goldfinch

White-tipped Dove

Elegant Bush Katydid

Plain Chachalaca warms up in the sun

Egg Sack of the Silver Orb Weaver

Christmas Cacti Fruit

Black Witch Moth at Falcon State Park

Panther-spotted Grasshopper

Vermilion Flycatcher brightens our day

Tropical House Cricket at Quinta Mazatlan 

Roadside Hawk - a Mexican visitor that drew birders
from everywhere.

Long-billed Thrasher 

My!  What big teeth you have!  Javelina yawning or gagging

Cooper's Hawk

Yes, another Harris's Hawk, too beautiful to pass up a photo

Whoa!  This isn't working too well!  Juvenile Gray Hawk

Another bright spot in the Mesquite Forest - Altamira Oriole

Adult Gray Hawk, a favorite South Texas sight

One of two baby raccoons at the Green Jay blind

Mama tries to empty the bird feeder 

McCall's Eastern Screech Owl peeks out of his favorite tree

Tree Snails are doing better, good news for Hook-billed Kites

Ringed Kingfisher on the Rio Grande seen from our pontoon boat ride

Cotton Rat and Texas Cottontail Rabbit

Black-crested Titmouse

One of 14 Groove-billed Anis still in the area



Like this Gray Hawk, we are taking off for the coast.


Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann

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