Bird Watching: Daily Bird Pics. Vol. 460, 0 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Howdy y'all! Can you believe I live in one of the country's best places to bird watch and I never really got into photographing birds?! I pretty much stick to butterflies and moths but recently I invited some Texas Parks & Wildlife friends to come look around the ranch and we met up there yesterday.

I drove them around to look at wildflowers and they were excited to see barn owls flying out of old deer blinds and great horned owls perched on the telephone post close to the house.

As we drove around they called out bird species that I had no idea about. I kind of look at birds like I do the skippers of the butterfly family - if they're gray or brown they all look the same to me!

Well, I was pleasantly surprised and my interest has been piqued. As we were talking out in the ranch driveway they pointed out Hooded Oriole, Eastern Bluebird, Eurasia Collared Dove, Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, White-eyed Virio, Curved-billed Thrasher, Long-billed Thrasher, Orange-crowned Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Red-Winged Blackbird and a Savanna Sparrow along with the usual Green Jays, Northern Mockingbird, Northern Cardinal and Pyrrhuloxia perched in the trees and eating birdseed I'd tossed in the yard a mere ten minutes earlier.