Ending the Year - SPI & Beyond

 

Here we are at the very south end of South Padre Island looking north at miles of beach.  The buildings tower along the shore for five miles and then it is 110 miles of sand dunes and National Seashore.

We have spent the month volunteering at the Birding Center guiding tourists along the boardwalk and helping them find the many birds and whatever else God puts in our view.

The Birding & Nature Center

Ring-billed Gull

Loggerhead Turtle plays "I Spy"

Willet

Neotropic Cormorant catches breakfast

Neotropic Cormorant - time to rest

Blue-eyed Neotropic Cormorants 

Seaside Bean

Black-crowned Night-heron adult

Black-crowned Night-heron Juvenile

Spotted Sandpiper getting his spots for Spring

Little Blue Heron

Alligator stack - a triple decker

White Ibis

Coyote - seldom seen but often heard

Caspian Tern hovers over fish

Ghost Crab excavating

Reddish Egret shakes out

Reddish Egret comes close for the photographers

Surprise bird of the month - Magnificent Frigatebird

Green Heron

Green-winged Teal hen

Red Knot

Dunlin

Long-billed Dowitcher

Piping Plover

Marbled Godwits

Belted Kingfisher

Rare Black Scoter found on our Christmas Bird Count

Black Scoter eats vegetation along the breakwater

Groove-billed Ani - three are spending the winter on the island

Snowy Egret on the breakwater

Brown Pelican plummets

Pyrrhuloxia - one of five wintering

Roseate Spoonbill - highlight of the bird tour

Where are you going?

Heading out to eat at the Laguna Madre

Chapel by the Sea is right next to the park and we enjoy
Sunday services and Christmas Eve Celebration

May you enjoy God's Blessings in 2022!
Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann