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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