We are enjoying the new compliment of birds and wildlife as well as seeing new and old friends.
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| Willet strolls the beach |
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| Sanderling -feeding reflection |
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| Snowy Egret fluffs |
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| Snowy Egret - ah that's the spot |
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| Ruddy Turnstone |
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| Black Land Crab - body is 5 inches across |
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| SpaceX is across the Brownsville Channel - about 5 miles away |
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| Brown Peilcan yawns.... |
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| and stretches |
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| Overwintering Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
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| American Kestrel juvenile above our RV |
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| Birding Center boardwalk to Laguna Madre from the 50 foot viewing area |
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| Our first group of visitors check out the mud flats |
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| Great Blue Heron |
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| Yellow-crowned Night-heron |
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| Black Skimmer - fish skimming |
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| Mottled Duck |
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| Pied-billed Grebe |
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| Brown Pelicans are everywhere |
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| Vertually every pier and post |
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| Sandwich Tern |
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| Yellow tipped bill is just starting on this Sandwich Tern |
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| Hundreds of Moon Jellyfish washed in with the waves |
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| Thousands of Mullet observed in near shore waters |
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| Loggerhead Sea Turtles feeding in channel |
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| Caspian Tern adult with food-begging near adult |
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| Great-tailed Grackle on the breakwater |
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| Great Blue Heron in the Gulf shallows |
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| Willet feeds along the waves |
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| Pelicans at Sunrise |
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| Pelican rides the rough surf |
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| Wintering Pyrrhuloxia |
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| Red-breasted Merganser |
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| Pair of Northern Pintails |
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| Where did she go? |
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| Big Padre - 12 feet long and 900 pounds The Birding and Nature Center has a Alligator rescue area. |
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| American Kestrel |
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| Cuckoo Bee |
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| Ghost Crab peeks of of his hole in the dunes |
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| Vermilian Flycatcher - Laguna Atascosa |
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| Aplomado Falcon looks down from high above |
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| White-tailed Hawk near Laguna Atascosa |
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| White-tailed Haek sits close by the road |
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| Thanks for turning around so we can see your tail |
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| Shrimp boat coming in from a night of shrimping |
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| This statue of Jesus reaches out over the Gulf as a memorial to all Shrimpers lost at sea. We wish you God's love and peace in this crazy world during the wonderful celebration of Jesus birth this Christmas. Love & Prayers, Ty & Ida Baumann |
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