Another beautiful birding day at Estero Llano Grande State Park
Roseate Spoonbill
Roseate Spoonbill preening along with the Green-winged Teal
Greater Yellowlegs
Black-necked Stilts - teenager and adult
Snowy Egret
Snowy Egret which ever way you look at it.
Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Anhinga sun drying after swim
American White Pelicans, Neotropic Cormorants fishing and Great Egret hoping to steal a catch.
Left to right - Snowy Egret, White Ibis, N. Shovelers, Am. Coot, White-faced Ibis & Snowy Egret
Yes, there are Alligators in "Alligator Lake".
"Blue eyed" Neotropic Cormorants
Tricolored Heron, windy sunrise, bad hair day!
Yucca Blossoms
White-winged Dove, Eurasian Collared-Dove and White-tipped Dove
Great Kiskadee displays yellow crest
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks are now dispersing for nesting cavities.
Least Grebe
McCall's Eastern Screech Owl
White-tailed Kite
Common Pauraque
Mexican Blue Butterflies, beautiful blue when open, camo brown when closed on left.
Trip over to Frontera Audubon Center - large Vulture Roost, both Black & Turkey.
Watch where you are walking and close your nose!
Plain Chachalaca
One of our favorites - Green Jay
Trip to Laguna Vista Nature Trail - great place for birders and birds.
Gray Catbird
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Long-billed Thrasher
Rufous Hummingbird
Lincoln's Sparrow
Common Yellowthroat and two Orange-crowned Warblers bathing.
You can actually see the orange crown on these warblers.
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warblers
Female Cardinal really getting into it!
Long-billed Thrasher enjoying a dip on a hot day!
Red-winged Blackbird tips up to swallow.
Thirsty Cottontail comes to join the birds.
Only two more days before we move to Mission and start the Hawk Count at Bentsen RGV State Park.
Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann
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