[texbirds] Pictures from Last week eagles, ducks, plovers etc

  • From: Joseph Kennedy <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: 4 Texbirds Maillist <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:00:43 -0600

As usual over this winter, bald eagles were the featured bird at Anahuac
refuge. There was a large flock a snow geese a ways north of shoveler pond
which could not be seen unless the eagles gave them flying lessons. But
they did keep eagles nearby like this almost adult with a little dirty
feathers still in the head.
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846176

And a younger bird

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846175

That were perched together

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846173

the plumes on the great blue herons continue to grow

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846158

Double-crested cormorants were around shoveler pond. Note the yellow lores
(by the eyes above the beak

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846155

and the rounded corner of the yellow bill where the two parts meet

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846157

Pintails are paired and feeding together

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846159

No color on the pied-billed grebes bills yet but they are starting to chase

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846170

The white-faced ibis are starting to turn a little more pink around the face

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846171

The mowed edges of 1985 have very short grass and are flooded making the
area great for birds and a close study for those who do not jump out of the
car and run at them with a camera like the gentleman does with hawks.
Bitterns really allow close looks

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846254

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846255

The say's phoebe was at its usual spot for the third winter

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846259

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846260

Down on bolivar, a red-tailed hawk kept winking at the camera

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846263

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846262

Lots of Bonaparte's gulls at the ferry landing on the bolivar side

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846332

While down bolivar flats, a crested caracara from Galveston's east beach
trespassed and was met by the bolivar flats pair and sent packing

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846334

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846335

The returning bird put up lots of the small birds from the beach

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158846336

Checked out piping plovers and found 5 banded birds among them

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158857101

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/158857096

Don't have all the results yet but they seem to be mainly Missouri river
birds.

Horned larks are doing well and are one bird that hurricane Ike did good by
when it moved lots of sand inland creating breeding flats that usually do
not flood.

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


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