We are volunteering at the South Padre Island Birding Center and this is part of the 3,300 feet of Boardwalk with a lot of great birds to view close up.
Green Heron is ready for his close-up.
Perching statue-like in the Black Mangrove above the water waiting for a Sheephead Minnow.
Distracted Green Heron
Reddish Egret - alert for fish
Reddish Egret fluffs up after preening
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night-heron
Yellow-crowned Night-heron
Least Bittern
Clapper Rail
Clapper Rails are most often hard to find in dense vegetation.
Pied-billed Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe young of the year
We had to put another Roseate Spoonbill in the blog!
Looking Good!
Jetty at the south end of South Padre Island projects out into the Gulf of Mexico.
Lots of fishing by public and birds when the waves are not crashing over it.
Brown Pelican coming in for a landing.
Adult Brown Pelican trying to pick up some cut bait.
White morph Reddish Egret daily visitor at the jetty.
Great Blue Heron watching for a chance to steal some fish.
Willet shows it's wing pattern that is usually hidden.
Royal Tern
Wintering American White Pelicans join their brown cousins resting on the sand bar.
Back at the Birding Center we find an unusual Cattail head - split and rejoined.
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks
Pair of wintering Redhead Ducks
Blue-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal preening exhibits his colorful speculum.
Hen Mottled Duck
Mottled Duck pair - drake has bright yellow bill.
Neotropic Cormorants and Laughing Gulls crowd the boardwalk railing.
Erect Day Flower
SPI's famous alligators - Big Padre & Lady Laguna.
Entrance landscape at the Birding Center where many of the songbirds are found.
Vermilion Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee feed on the fruit of...
The larger South American Turk's Cap.
Love & Prayers
Ty & Ida Baumann
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