[texbirds] Last week pictures, wrens, merlins, ducks etc

From: Joseph Kennedy <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>
To: 4 Texbirds Maillist <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 10:28:00 -0600
The fog listed a bit on the drive down to the bay at frozen point where the
krider type red-tailed hawk was on the fence post where it has been
photographed lots recently. It was a little soggy and makes a great mystery
bird picture
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663234

A few seaside sparrows popped up on the fence

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663236

The common bird along the bay were the sedge wrens where up to a dozen
would pop up at each stop

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663242

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663240

The were damp and when they flew to a new perch, they would leave behind a
trail of water droplets

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663241

They were joined by a few house wrens

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663237

All the little birds ignored the numerous harriers perched on the fences
and lumps in the field to try and dry. Here a gray ghost

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663254

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663255

Just up the way, marsh wrens were also perched out in the open

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663256

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663259

Sometimes when you are watching the wildlife, you discover that the
wildlife is watching back

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663262

They were smiling with the arrival of the sun

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663261

The bird of shoveler pond continued to be the lingering fulvous whistling
ducks

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663267

They were scattered all around in small groups with lots of trading back
and forth and joining new groups

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663268

When birds would go by, necks would go up and some would go off for greener
pastures

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663270

The really big feet gives them a great push off the water

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663271

Killdeer were cold around the office buildings

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663274

One of 3 merlin at the refuge

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663276

Short-billed dowitchers at Rollover Pass were catching lots of very long
worms

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663279

The worms took only a little work to find

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663281

A herring gull in Crystal Beach was much lighter than its beach mates and
maybe should be getting a lighter colored eye

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663283

Bob road had a lingering scissor-tailed flycatcher for maybe my last of the
year and my latest ever by a couple of weeks

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663284

One of the field marks to help distinguish between the 2 local cormorant
species is the corner of yellow behind the beak gape which is very rounded
in the double-crested cormorant.

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663285

But a turn of the head can change the shape of the area

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663286

And again the official merlin of the Houston Audubon society

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/153663289

More pictures of merlins, ducks and wrens at

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/inbox


-- 
Joseph C. Kennedy
on Buffalo Bayou in West Houston
Josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx


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