Herons & Egrets More
Here’s more on egrets/herons focusing on feeding behavior (mostly).










Here’s more on egrets/herons focusing on feeding behavior (mostly).










We have at least 3 rufous hummers at our Fort Davis place. The notch in R2 (2nd tail feather (retrices) from the middle) in one of the pix is diagnostic. Full adult male just showed up!! (more pix to come)
sub-species ad naseum !! Red-tailed Hawk Project
Attwater NWR As usual, I started my High Island adventure for 2025 with a visit to Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR. Also per usual, no Prairie Chickens!! However the singing Dickcissels were everywhere!! I was especially interested to see a group of about 25 Dickcissels all within about 20 yards of each other and all singing…
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…
This guys been hanging around my place this winter. He was dacha bird #138. Am now up to 143. This is a digi-bin pix.