[texbirds] Recent pictures, frigatebirds, greedy birds, shorebirds and more birds

From: Joseph Kennedy <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>
To: 4 Texbirds Maillist <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:33:35 -0500
Back on the 30th, the red-winged blackbirds were all singing at Anahuac
refuge
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150578658
Roseate spoonbills are starting to disperse to places like Bob Road where
they show that it is hard to drink
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150578663

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150578661

Sanderlings have a great mix of colors
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150578665

I was hearing white-rumped sandpipers on Bob Road but some of the birds on
the edge did not look right
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150578667

So they were western sandpipers as they are semipalmated and white-rumps
are not
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150578669

Good numbers of frigatebirds on the ferry
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150578672

But the best look at this neotropic terminal migrant were 3 birds just over
the treetops at the neotropic sanctuary where they could have been
returning from a boat ride on a shrimp boat
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150578674

The bryan beach lagoon did have white-rumped sandpipers

A trip on June 4th started on Galveston where the tropical kingbird pair
was in great voice at either their 2nd or 3rd nest attempt for the year
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618776

Most black terns at east beach were first year non-breeders
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618779

The clapper rail family was out in the sun
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618787

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618785

The flock of red knots on bolivar were all gray knots
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618790

Reddish egret numbers were up with all 3 plumages, red, white and white in
the head
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618791

Tricolored herons were out chasing minnows with the reddish egrets
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618792

One posed as a mystery bird
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618794

Its a good summer for white pelicans with at least 100 birds on the west
part of Galveston bay
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618795

A single least tern on bolivar flats was begging food and being fed every
couple of minutes
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618895

With good results
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618900

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150618902

Lots of brown pelicans were following the ferry
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150620497

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150620501

Frigatebirds were both white headed
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150620632

and dark headed
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150620630

Missing feathers can help keep track of the numbers of birds
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150620623

For the last couple of weeks I have only found these 2 large gulls which
are going to compete for the ugliest gull of the summer. Both appear to be
herring gulls
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150621851

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150621856

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150621848

Up on the texas city dike, a great blue heron caught a dead hardhead
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150621859

Fins make good handles
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150621861

Not sure if it would fit with the fins
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150621863

But it is going down
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150621867

And a drink is needed afterwards
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150621874

Only a few black terns there and this was the blackest
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150622815

Most are of this ilk
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150622816

Most terns there were forster's terns with maybe half paired
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150622823

Lots of screaming and calling at others
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150622824

http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150622819

And strutting around after the interlopers leave
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150622818

All of these and more can be browsed from
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/inbox


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


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