The odd couple

 

 

 

Great Egret.  Little-blue Heron.

 

Who wouldn’t love to walk here

 

 

 

 

This is cool

 

 

A real-time illustration of checklist submissions on eBird for the four-day Great Backyard Bird Count!

 

GBBC Live Subs

 

It takes a minute to load, then it comes alive.

 

 

My best bird today.  White-tailed Kite.

 

It used to be called a black-shouldered Kite, but either way works.

 

 

 

Its range touches the U.S. but just barely.  Mostly a Central and South America bird.

Life on the beach

 

 

 

 

 

Black-necked Stilt

 

 

 

Impeccably dressed.

 

 

 

The tower

 

 

At the birding center.

 

With kids on it!

 

And parents.

 

And a view of the boardwalk and flats below.

 

Back on the island

 

 

A view of the bay side.  The Laguna Madre.   A vast, extra-saline, warm nursery for the bigger creatures that live in the Gulf.

 

With the bridge to get here in the background.

 

And the view from the deck.