We have been at Mission, Texas for 4 weeks volunteering for the hawk count's Fall migration.
Each morning Ty goes out before dawn to count owls. Full Harvest Moon lights the way.
This will give you an example of some of the night sounds.
What you heard was the McCall's race of the Eastern Screech Owl.
Sunrise from the Hawk Tower
White-tailed Hawk
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Gray Hawk
Juvenile Mississippi Kite
Peregrine Falcon
Cooper's Hawk
Osprey
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Migrating Wood Storks
Indigo Bunting Female
We have seen 125 species of birds from the hawk tower in four weeks.
Groove-billed Ani crawling through the grass for insects below the tower
Groove-billed Ani
Great Kiskadee
White-eyed Vireo
Common Ground Dove
Couch's Kingbird
Bobcat tries hard to hide in the reeds
Coral Vine
Blue Collared Spiny Lizard
Javelina or Collared Peccary
Eastern Fox Squirrel
Millipede
Pacific Spiketail Dragonfly
Each blade of grass is covered with termite casings
Guayacan fruit also called Ironwood
Soapberry Tree - fruit loved by Parakeets
Kapok - the unhugable Tree (Get the Point?)
Kapok blossoms - Latin American tree - during WW1 the fruit silk was used for life preservers.
Vermilion Flycatcher - juvenile male
Plain Chachalaca
Three young Chachalacas share a stump
Black Phoebe
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Altamira Oriole
Two foot long Altamira Oriole nest
Green Jay
Painted Bunting
We have 10 more days of hawk count then it's eastward to Weslaco.
Our prayers are with Israel as they deal with terrorism.
Love & Prayers,
Ty & Ida Baumann
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