From the Field 2009

:: Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Deadly Fights ::	:: Osprey – Intraspecific Interactions: Aerial Attacks ::	:: Great Blue Heron catches ticket for me to the Top End ::	:: Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - photos from every angle November 2009 ::
:: Leucistic Red-tailed Hawk - Katy - Texas - December 2009 ::	:: White-tailed Hawk - Juvenile - UTC ::	:: White-tailed Hawk - Portraits ::	:: American White Pelican stretching pouch & gape - UTC November 2009 ::
:: Limpkin - Food ::	:: Sanderling Fight UTC ::	:: American Kestrel - Portraits ::	:: Great-tailed Grackle harassing Belted Kingfisher ::
:: Bald Eagle - November 2009 ::	:: Silver Call Duck ::	:: American Bittern hunting crayfish ::	:: Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - I can see you ::
:: American Alligator hunting crayfish ::	:: Least Grebe – Adult Portraits – BBSP Oct-Nov 2009 ::	:: Least Grebe – Juvenile Portraits – BBSP Oct-Nov 2009 ::	:: Least Grebe – Intraspecific Interactions: Fight between juveniles ::
:: Least Grebe – Interspecific Interactions with Pied-billed Grebe BBSP ::	:: Least Grebe – Feeding Juveniles - BBSP ::	:: Least Grebe – Food Items – BBSP Oct-Nov 2009 ::	:: Least Grebe – Foraging Techniques on water surface ::
:: Least Grebe – Foraging Techniques - diving ::	:: Least Grebe – Foraging Techniques – hunting dragonflies and damselflies ::	:: Least Grebes – Fashion Craze and Latest Fashion Statements ::	:: Great Blue Heron “Upright and Spread Wing” display ::
:: Common Moorhens fighting 2 - UTC November 2009 ::	:: Common Moorhens fighting ::	:: White Ibis mid-air fight with Laughing Gull for an eel ::	:: Laughing Gulls fighting for an eel ::
:: Roseate Spoonbill - UTC Summer 2009 ::	:: Quintana, UTC - September 19, 2009 ::	:: Quintana, UTC - September 16, 2009 ::	:: Quintana, UTC - September 12, 2009 ::
:: Least Grebe Family of 7 at Brazos Bend State Park - September 13, 2009 ::	:: Laughing Gull, White Ibis & wealth distribution ::	:: Least Tern Bands UTC Summer 2009 - Request for help to identify bands ::	:: Lesser Black-backed Gull at Quintana, UTC September 5, 2009 ::
:: White Ibis, Laughing Gull & Eels - UTC August 2009 ::	:: Limpkin, White Ibis & Mussel ::	:: American Oystercatcher - UTC August 2009 ::	:: American Oystercatcher fighting over dead crabs - UTC August 2009 ::
:: American Oystercatcher chasing Laughing Gull over dead crab - UTC August 2009 ::	:: American Oystercatcher and crab - UTC August 2009 ::	:: Sanderling fight - UTC August 29, 2009 ::	:: Quintana City Park - August 29, 2009 ::
:: Common Tern - UTC August 29, 2009 ::	:: Black Tern Juvenile - UTC August 29, 2009 ::	:: White Ibis fighting - UTC - August 2009 ::	:: American Oystercatcher - "Mud-Dance" - UTC August 2009 ::
:: Ruddy Turnstone - 1 minute battle - selected images ::	:: Ruddy Turnstone - 1 minute battle - complete sequence ::	:: First record of ‘pikei’ female Least Tern copulating - UTC - June 13, 2009 ::	:: Need a good haircut badly? – Call the Sanderling PhD. Plus HAS/HANPA meeting info. ::
:: Reddish Egret intermediate (pied) morph - Bolivar Flats, UTC, August 9, 2009 ::	:: Snowy Egret: Aerial foraging techniques: dipping, hovering, hovering-stirring, foot-dragging ::	:: Snowy Egret: Aerial foraging ::	:: Least Tern: nesting sites: public beaches ::
:: Brant - Brazoria NWR, August 1, 2009 ::	:: Least Tern: Defending Nest: Attacking intruders on the ground ::	:: Least Tern laying egg ::	:: Least Tern: Nest: maintaining scrape ::
:: Least Tern: Nest: looking for spot and making scrape ::	:: Least Tern: Defending Nest: Defecating on Intruders ::	:: Royal Tern taking ribbonfish ::	:: Laughing Gull - leucistic - with pink/red bill and legs ::
:: Smart Laughing Gull learned to ride pelicans ::	:: Nature’s Best Photography Magazine cover - summer 2009 ::	:: Magnificent Frigatebird grabs Royal Tern by the tail and shakes it – no respect to Your Highness ::	:: "Pied" looking Magnificent Frigatebird in heavy body molt - Quintana - UTC, June 21, 2009 ::
:: Black Skimmer aerial chases p2 - UTC Spring 2009 ::	:: Black Skimmer skimming - UTC Spring 2009 ::	:: Black Skimmer courtship and copulation - daytime - UTC Spring 2009 ::	:: Black Skimmer copulation - nighttime - UTC Spring 2009 ::
:: Sandwich Tern casting pellet ::	:: Terns, Gulls and Fishes UTC May/June 2009 ::	:: Northern Gannet - Quintana Jetty, UTC June 6, 2009 ::	:: Common Tern UTC May/June 2009 ::
:: Black Tern UTC May 2009 ::	:: Yellow-footed Gull taking ray fish from Common Loon ::	:: Yellow-footed Gull - March 2009 ::	:: Heermann's Gull - March 2009 ::
:: California Gull - March 2009 ::	:: Blue-footed Booby & Brown Booby March 2009 ::	:: Least Bittern defensive posture ::	:: Reddish Egret intermediate (pied) morph 2 ::
:: Reddish Egret intermediate (pied) morph (dark phase with white feathers) ::	:: Lesser Black-backed Gull versus Herring Gull - fights, UTC Spring 2009 ::	:: Herring Gull versus Herring Gull - fights, UTC Spring 2009 ::	:: Lesser Black-backed Gull: bloody dining and bathing - UTC - Spring 2009 ::
:: Lesser Black-backed Gull on the wing - UTC - Spring 2009 ::	:: Lesser Black-backed Gull: Portraits - UTC - Spring 2009 ::	:: Herring Gull - UTC - Spring 2009 ::	:: Great Blue Heron - how much it too much? ::
:: Sanderling – a big spirit in a small body, UTC - May 2009 ::	:: “Fishing as Art” – the great Great Blue Heron performance ::	:: Greater Flamingo - Freeport, UTC - May 16, 2009 ::	:: Quintana: UTC: May 2-3, 2009: Black-throated Blue, Cape May, Blackpoll Warbler ::
:: Least Tern - “Trading sex for food” ::	:: Osprey: EPC - Trying to attempt copulation by a stranger male - female refusal ::	:: Osprey: Pair copulation attempt shortly after courtship feeding ::	:: What the male will do for the female and what the female can do to the male. ::
:: Blackpoll Warbler - Quintana UTC April 26, 2009 ::	:: Western Diamondback Rattlesnake taking Red-winged Blackbird - Quintana , UTC - April 26, 2009 ::	:: Least Tern courtship feeding - UTC April 2009 ::	:: Black Skimmer aerial chases and yellow feather flush - UTC April 2009 ::
:: Worm-eating Warbler, Western Tanager etc – Quintana City Park: UTC: April 19, 2009 ::	:: “Worming Tournament” – the Easter feast on the shore ::	:: Pink feather flush in gulls and terns plumages UTC Spring 2009 ::	:: Laughing Gull courtship feeding - UTC Spring 2009 ::
:: "Food-Orgy" at the beach - UTC Spring 2009 ::	:: Osprey - Hatchlings ::	:: Osprey - Nest: 1 Egg and 2 Chicks ::	:: Osprey - Nest: 3 Eggs ::
:: Common Loon hunting ray fish - March 2009 ::	:: White-faced Ibis - Mid-air Fight ::	:: Elegant Tern - March 2009 ::	:: Virginia Rail, King Rail and Sora at SBNWR - February - March 2009 ::
:: 1st winter Yellow-footed Gull - March 2009 ::	:: Attwater’s Prairie Chicken male attacking cars and people on his lek ::	:: Texas prairie drought and fire devastating effect on wildlife. ::	:: Osprey - Behavior - Animations ::
:: Happy Valentine’s Day – The Great Blue Heron way ::	:: The White-tailed Hawk taking an Eastern Mole ::	:: Red-tailed Hawk - Upper Texas Coast - January 10, 2009 ::	:: Raptors - Upper Texas Coast - January 2009 ::
:: Tropical Parula - Brazos Bend State Park January 21, 2009 ::	:: Rusty Blackbird - Brazos Bend State Park - January 18, 2009 ::	:: Tropical Parula - Brazos Bend State Park January 18, 2009 ::	:: Attwater's Prairie-Chicken: lek (booming ground) January 2009 ::
:: Harris's Sparrow January 2009 ::	:: Quiz 4 - answer: Attwater's Prairie-Chicken male's sounds ::	:: Texas Ammodramus sp sparrows - Headshots: Henslow’s, Le Conte’s, Grasshopper, Seaside and Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow ::	:: Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 04, 2009: Fog ::
:: Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 04, 2009: Sparrows ::	:: Henslow's Sparrow - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 04, 2009 ::	:: Quiz No 3 - Osprey ::	:: Greater Prairie-Chicken: Attwater's Prairie-Chicken - January 02, 2009 ::
:: Loggerhead Shrike - The King of barbed wire ::	:: Loggerhead Shrike’s butchery - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 02, 2009 ::	:: Grasshopper, White-crowned, Savannah and Vesper Sparrows - Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR, January 02, 2009 ::