A trip to Texas to coincide with the warbler migration was the main aim the Falls that you read of didn't happen but a steady arrival was still great ..
Flew out with BA on the 24th April to meet up with Jono at the Hotel in Houston ..
Early start on the 25th for a 90 minute drive for High Island.
We tried Boy Scout Woods, Sabine Woods, Anahuac Refuge and the Bolivar Peninsula ..
Common Yellowthroat
Kentucky Warbler
White-eyed Vireo
Magnolia Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
American Redstart
Black-and-White Warbler
Hooded Warbler
An early start for Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge this is a fantastic site and a must see location ..
Great-tailed Grackle
Orchard Oriole ~ female
Orchard Oriole ~ male
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Least Bittern
Alligator
Cattle Egret
Least Bittern
Red-winged Blackbird
Seaside Sparrow
Western Meadowlark
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Golden-winged Warbler
Common Nighthawk
American Robin
Great-tailed Grackle ~ female ?
Royal Tern
Forster's Tern
Great Crested Flycatcher
Wood Thrush
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Thrush
Brown Thrasher
Great-tailed Grackle
Purple Gallinule
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
Red-winged Blackbird ~ Female
Blue-winged Teal
Tri-coloured Heron
Red-winged Blackbird
Tri-coloured Heron
Least Bittern
Sora
King Rail
Black-billed Cuckoo
Went to see these range restricted and endangered cranes which are one of the rarest North American birds ...
Whooping Crane
Out on to the Boliver Peninsula trying The Flats and Rollover Pass
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Least Tern
Forster's Tern
Brown Pelican
Least Tern
Snowy Plover
Royal Tern
Snowy Egret
Semi-palmated Plover
Semi-palmated Plover
Least Tern
Least Sandpiper
Caspian Tern
Snowy Plover
Wilson's Plover
Laughing Gull
Boy Scout Wood again late afternoon ..
Grey Catbird
Grey Catbird
Then a 2 hour drive back to Houston ready for a early start to find Red-cockaded Woodpecker another rare and range restricted bird ..
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Then it was back to Houston Airport for a flight to Philadelphia ..
3 comments:
Stunning photos- brings back memories of my trip to Texas many years ago.
So beautiful to see all these exotic birds in your post. Being abroad is always exiting. New species and new experiences.
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April 2019 photos from Texas. Looks like a Gray-cheeked Thrush and not a Swainson's. Note the plain face, gray face, no real eye ring vs the buffy spectacles and eye ring and more color overall expected in Swainson's.
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