Birds of Bentsen Palm Village RV Park
Hooded Oriole male
Hooded Oriole female
Great Horned Owlets are growing fast
Great Horned Owlet feathering out and where is owlet #1?
Here's #1. Flew the coop!
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in daily flight to cattle yard feeding trough.
God's creatures punctuate Ty's daily two and a half mile mile pray/praise hike to the hawk tower.
Common Pauraque
Gulf Coast Toads
Chuck-Wills-Widow
Plain Chachalacas at dawn
From the tower, some of 70+ bird species.
Plain Chachalacas perched high.
Dawn fog in Rio Grande Valley
This Northern Mockingbird is entertaining us with his bird impressions.
We have recognized 8 to 12 different bird songs to date.
Scissors-tailed Flycatchers are in full migration
Scissors-tailed hawking for insects - what a showman!
Olive Sparrow collecting nesting materal below the hawk tower
Verdin is nesting nearby
Two male Cowbirds - Bronzed on top, Brown-headed below
Bronzed Cowbird - all puffed up
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Couch's Kingbird
Hawk migration has been exceptional with over 185,000 raptors so far, a record high.
Swainson's Hawk
Swainson's comes in low over the tower
Broad-winged Hawk
Broad-wings comprised 43,000 in one morning.
Another one!
Dark morph Broad-winged
After 34 days of no show, the Hook-billed Kites returned
Fun to see them again,
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Mississippi Kites have finally arrived!
A banded Harris's Hawk
Harris's Hawks are local residents
Great Kiskadee
Kiskadee's basketball sized nest
Altamira Oriole
Altamira Oriole nest hangs two feet down and decorated with red ribbon
10" Cane Toad with engorged wood tick on it's back
Dew laced Spider web anchored on tower
Leaf-footed Bug
Raccoon hunting in recent rain filled depressions below tower.
Another week to go before we start heading north.
Looking forward to what God has in store for us next.
Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann
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