Thursday, December 29, 2011

Day 7 Texas Vacation Xmas 2011


We woke up at 7:30am and had breakfast and got organized to go to the Birding and Nature Center for a guided tour.  A group of us met our guide Ryan on the front deck.  He talked a bit about the Birding Center and then led us on the walk.  We saw birds that we had not seen before and it was great having Ryan along to tell us the names of the birds and tell us a bit about the birds and their habitat.
  
We took over 200 photos on our walk, I will spare you the agony of looking at all 200 photos and just show you some of the best photos.

A Willet

6196 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Willet

A Killdeer

6204 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Killdeer

A Redhead Duck

6216 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Redhead duck

A Reddish Egret

6227 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Reddish Egret (rufous form)

A Snowy Egret fluffing its feathers

6240 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Snowy Egret

A Little Blue Heron

6251 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Little Blue Heron

A Hermit Crab

6266 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Hermit crab

A Red Breasted Merganser

6282 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Red-breasted Merganser

Very rarely seen during the daytime, a Black Crowned Night Heron

6285 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Black-crowned Night-heron

A Common Moorhen

6302 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Common Moorhen now called 'Common Gallinule'

An American Coot
6308 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - American Coot

A Great Egret

6312 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Great Egret

A Pied-Billed Grebe

6320 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Pied-billed Grebe

I don’t need to tell you what this is…

6335 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - American Alligator at blind 7 6339 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - American Alligator at blind 7 6341 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - American Alligator at blind 7

A Northern Shoveler

6349 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - duck - northern shoveler (spoonbill)

A Lesser Yellowlegs Sandpiper

6356 Texas, South Padre Island - Birding and Nature Center guided bird walk - Lesser Yellowlegs sandpiper

After walking the boardwalks at the birding center we came back to our trailer and had some lunch.  After lunch I relaxed, worked on my computer for a bit and read part of the book that I am reading on my Kindle.  Karen went to the laundry room and did our laundry.  

It is a beautiful sunny day, high of 25 Celsius.
We walked over to the sunset viewing deck at 5:30pm.

6365 Texas, South Padre Island - KOA Kampground - sunset 6370 Texas, South Padre Island - KOA Kampground - sunset 6382 Texas, South Padre Island - KOA Kampground - sunset & Black Dragon Pirate Cruise ship

6388 Texas, South Padre Island - KOA Kampground - sunset 6389 Texas, South Padre Island - KOA Kampground - sunset 6390 Texas, South Padre Island - KOA Kampground - sunset

To see all of our photos from this evening you can find them on my FLICKR site.

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