Okay

 

Time to talk about something besides birds….

 

Okay.

 

…

 

Hey.  Check out these videos.  That Dunlin I took pictures of next to our pond.  Here he is feeding his way along the edge.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/steveandjudystravels#p/u/7/YYDoHimvlF0

 

 

Compare him to the Wilson’s Snipe.  I swear; the snipe must feed by osmosis.  When you see them, they’re always hiding so you won’t see them.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/steveandjudystravels#p/u/6/KPqAzE8FizY

 

 

Oops.  Lost my concentration.

 

Maybe next time.

A Redhead Duck

Adopted our pond for a few days.

Sometimes

Sometimes the sky is filled with ducks.


Sometimes it’s filled with pelicans.

Peeps

There are a bunch of little shorebirds that are known collectively as Peeps: Sanderlings, Dunlin, Semi-palmated Sandpipers, Western Sandpipers, Least Sandpipers, White-rumped Sandpipers, Baird’s Sandpipers. They’re hard to tell apart.

Here is a Dunlin working the pond edge in front of our site.

He has a long bill that droops at the end, which is not definitive, but is one of the identifying characteristics.

eBird

eBird keeps a top 100 list, not for life-lists, but for current year lists. I want to make the top 100. If you’re in the top 100, they list your name. I’m not there for my U.S. list. So far I’m at 667. But there is still hope. They have more specific lists. I’m not there for my Texas list either though. I’m number 109. Nueces County. That’s the county we live in. I’m there. I’m in the top 100! I’m number 18 in the county so far. Yeaa!

I’ve got more sightings to put in.


Today, Judy and I drove to the Valley to get a bird that’s named like it’s from a George Carlin routine. An Oxymoron. We got the bird.

A Greater Pewee.

Henry

Dressed for inclement weather


Of course, we haven’t had any inclement weather. Mostly, it looks like this:

He’s just trying on his slicker to make sure he’s ready.

Green Jays

One of the cool sub-tropical birds of South Texas.