Lucifer
At Davis Mountains Cabin (The Land).
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Yellow-headed Blackbird
Got bird # 149 at the Dacha recently (found by Mary)
Heerman’s Gull
Am I prophetic?
Gulls in Corpus
Here are the gulls we did see. Can you ID without your book?
Brown Booby
Also took me about 30 seconds to add this Brown Booby in Aggieland a couple of weeks ago to my Texas list. Only bird on the lake. Same trip as the Limpkin, I was on a roll!!! 60 seconds of birding and added 2.
Semipalmated vs Least
Here’s a comparison of Semipalmated with a Least. So I think we can see actual black legs here on this sandpiper. It’s a short-winged bird; wings are just atop tail. Bill is short and pretty straight. Overall coloration is fairly pale, not brown. Baird’s and Least are brown-hued birds. Both also have a chest coloration…