Fallout. A birding Nirvana.
Bearing down on the Texas Gulf Coast was a cold front from the mid-West bringing with it turbulent weather and thunderstorms. Such favorable meteorological conditions were sure to produce a fallout.
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Nighthawks, Dickcissels and Boat-tailed Grackles at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge
Nighthawks have been a new bird for me here in Texas. I’ve heard them and seen them overhead as they come out at sunset when I’d leave the grocery store, but I never got a good look at one until this day at Anahuac where we saw around 25.
Great Egret and her chicks: Learning to eat takes practice
Eating takes practice, especially when you have a long beak and your food is being passed to you by another even longer beak.
There’s a lot going on
The trees were dripping with egrets and roseate spoonbills and though a soggy day, it meant very few birders were at the rookery.