We're on our way to Corpus Christi in the bus

 

…by way of Brownsville.  Can’t get much farther south than this.

 

In Corpus on Monday, we’ll do the last round of pre-surgery appointments; three in all.  In the meantime, we hung out at Oliviera Park in Brownsville to watch the parrots come in to roost at dusk.  Red-crowned parrots.

There are a lot of parrots here, maybe fifty or a hundred.  That’s what most of them are, red-crowned.

 

But then, we spot a red-lored parrot.

You can tell by the yellow on his cheeks.  Year-bird!  Number 400.  We were on a mission to get to 400 before surgery, so I wouldn’t be so tempted to go back out to finish after.  Made it.

 

And after that, yellow-headed parrot.

You can tell by the yellow head.  Number 401.  A cushion.

 

And then, and then

We think this might be two lilac-crowned parrots with a red-crowned parrot in the middle.  See the difference in the red pattern on their heads?  The red-crowned has more red across the top.  If these do turn out to be lilac-crowned, that will be 402.  Not only that, but lilac-crowned would be a lifer as well.  Way cool.

 

Birding rewards aren’t always immediate.  Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what you’ve seen and haven’t seen.