Sunday, March 10, 2024

Rio Grande Valley Field Trips

 

Indian Blanket - flowers blanket the field near Falcon

Green Jay at Salineño Wildlife Preserve bird feeders

Altamira Oriole

Altamira Oriole loves peanut butter

Elusive Audubon's Oriole

White-winged Dove

We went with Scott & Connie Jo Dirks and this is his photo of the male Morelet's Seedeater

Ty's photo of female Seedeater

Ringed Kingfisher female over the Rio Grande

Pink Prickly Poppy

Black-throated Sparrow

Greater Roadrunner at Falcon State Park

Northern Bobwhite scurries away

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Lark Bunting female near end of 14 hour day of birding

Least Grebe at San Benito Wetlands

Northern Harrier - close flyby

Cinnamon Teal with a pair of Blue-winged Teal

Greater Roadrunner opening back feathers to the sun at Laguna Atascosa NWR

Most numerous wintering bird in the Valley
Red-winged Blackbird

Large Indigo Snake crosses our path

Close up reveals Wood Ticks attached.  How many can you find?

Gull-billed Tern seen from Osprey Point

Long-billed Curlews in Hidalgo

Inca Dove nesting at Quinta Mazatlan

Green Jay

Green Jay sports colorful bands, Great Kiskadee wishes he had bling.

Plain Chachalacas

Yellow Prickly Poppy

Great Egret at Hugh Ramsey Preserve

Curve-billed Thrasher nesting in tall Yucca


Couch's Kingbirds returning for Spring

 

After long days of birding we all get tuckered out.  

We are now back at Mission and the Bentsen RGV State Park for Hawk Watch.
Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann





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