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Date: April 25-26 and May 3rd Trip Locality: High Island, Texas: Smith Oaks, Boy Scout Woods, Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary and Anahuac NWR Camera Equipment: Canon Digital Rebel, 100-400mm IS Lense & Bogen Tripod Pages: 1 |
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Summer Tanager First bird that I saw when I arrived at Boy Scout Woods at 8:10 am. |
Indigo Bunting Bush right outside of Boy Scout Woods. |
Summer Tanager At Smith Oaks. |
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
Gray Catbird Related to Mockingbirds. |
Scarlet Tanager Just about to fly over to the Murberry Tree. |
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
Scarlet Tanager |
Orchard Oriole Male Orchard Oriole, outside of Boy Scout Woods at the Bed & Breakfast. |
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Orchard Oriole Female Orchard Oriole. |
Red-bellied Woodpecker Feasting on the Mulberry at Smith Oaks. |
Blue-headed Vireo Smith Oaks |
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Common Yellowthroat Smith Oaks |
Black-throated Green Warbler Smith Oaks |
Yellow-rumped Warbler Male Yellow-rumped Warbler at Smith Oaks.
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Black-bellied Plover Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary (BFSS) |
Ruddy Turnstone Breeding plumage at BFSS |
Wilson's Plover BFSS |
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Baltimore Oriole I thought these guys were Bobolinks before I looked it up. Turns out to be a flock of Baltimore Orioles at Boliver Flats Shorebird Sanctuary. |
Rollover on Hwy 87 Brown Pelican, Terns and Black Skimmers! Black Skimmers & White Isbis, the two birds that I wanted to photograph when I moved to Houston. |
Boat-tailed Grackle Different species from the Great-tailed Grackle that we have in Houston. |
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Eastern Kingbird They are back! At Anahuac NWR, I have also been seeing them at Tom Bass Regional Park. |
Boat-tailed Grackle The darker eyes differs it from the Great-tailed Grackle. At Anahuac NWR. |
Savanna Sparrow At Anahuac NWR. |
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Primrose Good for Red-foot turtle browse. |
Brown-headed Cowbird They help to prevent Black-capped Vireos and Olive Sparrows from taking over the world! Just kidding, I shouldn't hate on Cowbirds, its the habitat fragmentation. Creating edges. |
Black-bellied Whistling Duck Date: May 3rd Trip When to High Island again on May 3rd with Rhett and Amber from the Zoo. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks at Boy Scout Woods. |
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Purple Gallinule At Boy Scout Woods. |
Rabbit Alittle debate about Eastern Cottontail or Swamp Swamp Rabbit, hummmm. Still up in the air. |
Rookery The Rookery at Sith Oaks. |
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American Alligators Waiting for egret chicks to push younger siblings off the nest. |
Roseate Spoonbill Nestlings |
Roseate Spoonbill Orange tail feathers. |
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Double-crested Cormorants Lots of Cormorant chicks. |
Roseate Spoonbills Older nestlings. |
Louisana Herons Also known as Tricolored Herons. One of the best breeding plumages of Herons, I think. |
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The Rookery So many birds. Amber and Rhett were very impressed with this place. Rhett even went back a couple of times afterwards. |
Ranger Rhett Sporting the Zoo hat. |
Double-crested Cormorant Their nest is alittle lop sided. After Smith Oaks, we headed off to Anahuac NWR. |
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Louisana Heron Hunting in the reeds. |
Amber Checking out some coastal marsh wildlife. |
Purple Gallinuled Just look at the size of the feet of that thing! So much variation in feet in the family Rallidae (134 world wide species). |
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Orchard Oriole My best look at an Orchard Oriole. Right off to the side of the main loop trail. |
Eastern Pondhawk Erythemis simplicicollis Also known as Green Clearwing |
Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis Also known as Swift Long-winged Skimmer |
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Four-spotted Pennant Brachymesia gravida A female Four-spotted Pennant, this species exhibit sexual dichromatism. |
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