Random

A Lesser Scaup



A guy poured out an entire bag of corn for the birds

Gulls

We went down to White Rock Lake on New Year's Day when the weather was nice and threw some bread to the gulls.

American Kestrel

I went down to the Trinity River the other day and parked my car at a shady neighborhood park and walked over the levee to the river. The first bird I saw was this kestrel in a tree. He didn't stay (they seem very flighty to me) so of course I followed him.


Next he landed on a branch about a hundred feet away from me.
This was as close as he would let me get.



Not a great photo, but it does display one of their cool behaviors. When the are hunting they hover over the ground before they dive on their prey.



I was about 15 feet away for this picture. How did I get so close? I had seen him sit on this traffic cone before, so when he left it, I got real close and laid down in the grass and waited. And waited. It was at least 20 minutes before he came back with prey. I was able to snap about 8 pictures before the noise of the camera scared him off.









While I was laying in the grass waiting for the kestrel, I spotted this Cooper's Hawk.



Later on I saw him again and was able to sneak up pretty close. He flew off before I was able to get any clear pictures of him.

My first Eastern Bluebird!

Mississippi Kite

Great Horned Owl

Mississippi Kite

A female Cardinal

An Indigo Bunting

A Great Blue Heron

A Little Blue Heron



A Yellow Crowned Night Heron

Red-tail Hawk