Yesterday I met up with a birding friend from California at the Dick Kleberg
Park in Kingsville, about 30 miles south of Corpus Christi.
He had seen orioles in the park on several occasions, and so we looked for them
and found a pair of Bullock's Orioles flying back and forth across the Sta.
Gertrudis Creek. The male often sat up at the top of a tree surveying his
kingdom, but we did not see whether they were tending to a nest.
I realized that I had never really heard a Bullock's vocalizing and was
surprised at the similarity of their call to the voice of the park
superintendent (aka Northern Mockingbird).
The park was very birdy - several Green Herons (one with feet the color of
flames in a campfire) flew up and down the creek, Painted Buntings called, two
or three Brown-crested Flycatchers were very "whitty" and two Common Ground
Doves foraged almost at our feet.
We went to lunch and, passing by his old homestead in town, found a bright male
Hooded Oriole in a dead tree behind the place.
On my way home, a Swainson's Hawk floated over a field next to the road.
Judy Kestner
Corpus Christi
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