Started the day on Galveston's east beach with the pomarine jaeger arriving
at his seat and immediately started preening which seems to be his usual
task for the day.
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738268
And then lay down where it stayed for a couple of hours
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738269
It did stand up once and turn some
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738271
A lesser black-backed gull moves from east beach to bolivar flats. Today it
was at east beach
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738276
Least terns seem to be sitting on more eggs now that a month ago
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738275
Lots of variation in the plumage of young royal terns
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738280
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738281
And young sandwich terns too
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738282
A group of 7 western willets was resting next to the jaeger whereas the
terns kept a long distance
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738283
Yellow-crowned night herons were catching crabs but can also prey on young
terns or their eggs. Black-crowns are greater predators.
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738284
A pair of banded piping plovers acted paired and both apparently come from
the platte river population with the blue flag.
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738278
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738277
Had my first young of the year laughing gull following the ferry
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738297
And they are showing up everywhere
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738298
The ferry landing are good places to study cormorants with all the birds
neotropics at this time of year
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738300
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738299
Whimbrels were on Bolivar flats where they were catching crabs
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738308
It was hard to eat them as the laughing gulls poached on the prey but the
whimbrels poached on the western willets
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738309
Its hard for a whimbrels to drink with the long bill
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738311
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738313
Two Missouri river piping plovers were together on the flats
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738404
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738403
Along with banded snowy plovers
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738405
And banded young Wilson's plovers
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738406
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738409
And older Wilson's plovers
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738410
And older Wilson's plovers being followed by a youngster
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738411
Anahuac had young black-bellied whistling ducks
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738412
Along with fulvous whistling ducks which were too fast for me as well as a
never ending stream of young common gallinules
http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/163738413
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http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/inbox
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Joseph C. Kennedy
on Buffalo Bayou in West Houston
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