Monday, December 6, 2021

Rio Grande Valley Birding

 

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher migrating south
After 11 weeks at Bentsen Palm Village in Mission, Texas we are moving on to Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island.

Having met new friends from Colorado, Tom & Sherry O'Shea, who shared our interest in birding and all things natural, we took advantage of rare bird sightings in the Rio Grande Valley.








American White Pelican coming south

Black-crowned Night-heron at Edinburg Wetlands

Diamond-backed Watersnake - 5 feet long

Double-crested Cormorant spears Pleco

Green Heron

Am White Pelicans have definetly arrived for the winter.

Black-necked Stilts

Clay-colored Thrush at Hugh Ramsey Nature Trail
Joining Jerry & Karen Smith, long-time friends from Wisconsin

Western Box Elder Bugs concentrating

Red-eared Sliders blanketed with Duck Weed

Green Parakeet

Passion Flower

Mom with baby Javelina

Mom attacks- too close to her baby - interloper clicks inciseos and surrenders.

Great Kiskadee admires self

Time for a peanut butter treat

Coyotes wrap up a night hunt at Bentsen State Park

Gray Hawk Juvenile

White-tailed Kite

Harris's Hawk haloed by the moon

Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk juvenile

Red--shouldered Hawk

Fork-tailed Bush Katydid

Plain Chachalaca

Altamira Oriole

Audubon's Oriole - a rare find that many birders came to see

Female Rose-throated Becard, another rare find

Fork-tailed Flycatcher - a super rare find

This Social Fycatcher in Brownsville is new for North America for us



American Kestrel on Palm hunting at our RV site

Good luck hunting - caught an Eastern Fence Lizard

Fog droplets adorn spiderweb

Common Pauraque sleeping at Estero Llano Grande State Park

Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann








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