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High Island 2025 (April/May) Part 2
Gulls | High Island | Identification | Texas Gulf Coast

High Island 2025 (April/May) Part 2

Byjepbird@att.net October 9, 2025October 9, 2025

Favorite Photos Here are a few I liked. I was pleased to find a Little Gull to get my gull-fix in !! Little Gull Friends !! I really enjoy the 2 groups of birders that Eric and I bird with on this annual trip!! Shorebirds Warblers and woodland passerines are only part of the fun…

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High Island 2025 (April/May) Part 2
Gulls | High Island | Identification | Texas Gulf Coast

High Island 2025 (April/May) Part 2

Byjepbird@att.net May 20, 2025July 6, 2025

Favorite Photos Here are a few I liked. I was pleased to find a Little Gull to get my gull-fix in !! Little Gull Friends !! I really enjoy the 2 groups of birders that Eric and I bird with on this annual trip!! Shorebirds Warblers and woodland passerines are only part of the fun…

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Little Gull
Gulls | High Island | Texas Gulf Coast

Little Gull

Byjepbird@att.net May 6, 2025July 5, 2025

Gulls wander !!!! I was extremely pleased on recent trip to Bolivar Peninsula when this 2nd cycle Little Gull wandered in as I was watching terns at Rollover Pass!!! He stayed for about 15 minutes while I documented him in every way I could think of. This is what makes Gulling so fun; finding the…

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Brown Noddy
Corpus Christi | Rare Birds | Texas Gulf Coast

Brown Noddy

Byjepbird@att.net April 9, 2025July 3, 2025

We happened to be in Corpus over the weekend so stopped in to see this Brown Noddy that had been hanging around. Sadly he was taken in for rehab just after we saw, but later died.

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Reddish Egret
Identification | Texas Gulf Coast

Reddish Egret

Byjepbird@att.net March 10, 2025July 5, 2025

Reddish Egrets don’t always dance around crazily. Note bi-colored bill. Corpus 2/24/25.

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Houston Audubon Patch
High Island | Texas Gulf Coast

Houston Audubon Patch

Byjepbird@att.net February 19, 2025March 2, 2025

If you’re going to High Island this year you can order your patch here: 2025 Patch The Story of the Houston Audubon Patch

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Great Black-backed Gull NO
Gulls | Rare Birds | Texas Gulf Coast

Great Black-backed Gull NO

Byjepbird@att.net January 17, 2025March 2, 2025

On RGV trip on Monday I found this interesting gull at the Port Aransas jetty. I called it a Great Black Backed Gull in the field based on thick pink legs, big bill, large size (a good bit larger than Herrings present), white head, thick neck and patterned coverts. Posting pix to gull FB pages,…

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Yellow-headed Cara Cara YES
Rare Birds | Texas Gulf Coast

Yellow-headed Cara Cara YES

Byjepbird@att.net January 6, 2025March 2, 2025

Here’s the target of my trip to Galveston — Yellow headed Cara Cara. Like the Kelp Gull he’s up from South America.

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Massive Flight of Cormarants
Texas Gulf Coast

Massive Flight of Cormarants

Byjepbird@att.net January 1, 2025March 5, 2025

Several places on the Gulls Field trip we had very large numbers of birds. Here’s only 1/2 of a huge flight of cormorants that flew by us on the Texas city Dike. Anybody volunteer to count them?

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Iceland Gull YES
Corpus Christi | Flycatchers | Gulls | Rare Birds | Texas Gulf Coast

Iceland Gull YES

Byjepbird@att.net December 31, 2024March 2, 2025

And finally, here’s another cool gull from Corpus. It took me 7 tries over the past 3 years to finally get this gull. He’s been returning to a bait shop there for at least that long. Also compared to Herring in 1 pix.

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