Driving around looking for wet places in Chambers County had a green heron
flying up to a post with a fish
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253640
It took a while to get rid of the other stuff
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253642
But eventually it went down and after a little preening, the heron noticed
something on the ground and started squawking. It eventually went down and
something there squeaked a little along with the heron calls. Maybe a
little bird but it did not come back to the post
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253647
A swainson's hawk was migrating along the highway on Bolivar and turned
north to go inland at high island
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253616
It was carrying lunch and some grass so had recently obtained prey
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253614
Which was a long legged shorebird
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253615
Scissor-tailed flycatchers were on territory
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253608
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253610
Lesser yellowlegs was the commoner sandpiper in wet spots away from the
beach
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253605
Some of the royal terns are developing reddish bills compared to the normal
orange color on the bird in the background. It appears that the color is
not deep as the bill appears orange when looking though the bill at the sun
glare off the water
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253606
And my first least bittern of the season was sunning
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253602
The highlight of bolivar flats was an oldsquaw out on the sand
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253634
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253632
The duck had to move periodically as the tide was starting to rise. The
lowest tide I have seen there had virgin sand exposed and it was heavily
used by black-bellied plovers as well as the small plovers. Picking was the
preferred feeding method as only a few dowitchers were using the area.
But the old squaw was crowded as it moved
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253628
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165253629
Earlier in the week Brazos Bend State Park had early broods out and about.
These pied-billed grebes came from nests made back in February
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165244944
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165244947
The wing feathers still have a little growing to do
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165244948
Eastern bluebirds are on the nest
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165244943
And other people had young out too
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165244936
18 American bitterns made a daily record for me and most were out in the
open in the green water hyacinths
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165244938
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165244937
And the dandelion was the flower of the day
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/165244941
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Joseph C. Kennedy
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