Birds -- Upper Texas Coast, April 2008
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, male |
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, female |
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, male flying |
Carolina Wren, male singing |
Blue-headed Vireo |
Black-throated Green Warbler, male |
Kentucky Warbler, male |
Summer Tanager, male |
Summer Tanager, first spring male with mulberry |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak. first-spring male(?) |
Great-tailed Grackle, male |
Red-bellied Woodpecker, male |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron |
Tricolored Heron |
Roseate Spoonbill |
Roseate Spoonbill |
Roseate Spoonbills, pair |
White Ibis |
Cattle Egret, with rodent |
Great Egrets, passing nesting material |
Great Egrets, adult feeding young |
American Oystercatcher |
Ruddy Turnstone, breeding plumage male |
Dunlin, partial breeding plumage |
Clapper Rail |
Neotropic Cormorant |
Black Skimmer and friends |
Least Tern |
Sandwich Tern, with fish |
Sandwich Terns |
Royal Tern |
Forster's Tern, diving for dropped fish |
Laughing Gull, flying |
Laughing Gull |
Greater Yellowlegs, breeding plumage |
Red-winged Blackbird, typical female |
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