Showing posts with label Redheads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Redheads. Show all posts
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Sunday, February 12, 2017
Birding On a Shoestring At the Lower Rio Grande Valley In Coastal Waters
Reddish Egret
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Redhead Pair
Bonaparte's Gull (top)
Ring-billed Gull (Bottom)
Reddish Egret
Reddish Egret
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Snowy Egret
Redheads in Flight
Female Redhead
Snowy Egret
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Tri-colored Heron
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This portion of the Lower Rio Grande Valley journey encompassed a couple of places on the coast, one of which I had never been.
These birds are old friends, and even though more will be shown to you later, these are some of my favorite birds, especially since I happen to be a heron specialist. In general, water birds are
intriguing to me, as they sometimes have to be wily and cunning in order to get a meal.
Just as an example, the Snowy Egret has yellow feet for that purpose. The feet resemble worms in the water, and this bird has a natural instinct to lift and move its feet in a circular motion in order to attract fish and small crustaceans, as well as swirling them to the surface. Isn't nature wonderful with some built-in ways to achieve the feeding goal?
The Reddish Egret is a canopy fisher, as you can see with its wings raised above its head. It also tends to run about in the water in order to stir fish to move toward the surface.
Ducks are also some of my favorites, having grown up in an area where there were and still are, water birds a-plenty.
The pictures of the Redheads will thrill you as much to view them, as it did for me to take the pictures.
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Summer Relinquishes to Fall's Finer Showings
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| Eastern Bluebird |
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| Double-crested Cormorants |
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| Killdeer |
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| Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Female Downy Woodpecker Great Horned Owl |
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Adult Red-shouldered Hawk |
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Great Blue Heron Holding Berries |
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Great Blue Heron Releasing Berries |
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Juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron |
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Redheads |
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American Goldfinch 11-20 through12-02-16 |
El Nino still holds on fast to many things, even though its time should be up. Global warming
has taken on a stronger foothold, so birds that should have been on their way to more southern climes are still with us in mid-December, like the Great Egret, juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron, and even a vagrant Brown Pelican from the briny waters. I did not see the pelican yesterday, but my sources are very trustworthy, so I know that it was on Boomer Lake.
Rumor has it that winter will be warm and wet for the Great Plains, but the northern areas will be even colder and snowier. Good fortune to all, and keep warm.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Owl Be Seeing You
Rusty Blackbird
Redheads
Northern Flicker(yellow shafted)
Great Horned Owl
Song Sparrow
The Rusty Blackbird surprised me a little, since it rarely ventures out at the lake, but the calm day must have had something to do with it. These photos were taken over the past two days; yesterday was a bright and windless day, and today had gusting winds at 20 mph. Each day had its good points, so I chose the best photos between the two. This is what I came up with, and tomorrow is another day.
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