Bird Watching: South Llano River State Park, TX, 1 by PeeperKeeper

PeeperKeeper wrote:
My main goal for the trip was to see my favorite bird, the Vermilion Flycatcher again, and secondarily to get a decent picture of a male. The first time we went there, one was using a tree in our campsite as his home base and stayed around the whole time.

The males are so vibrant! I had no idea before I saw my first one that there was a bird in Texas that was a brighter red than the brightest Cardinal! Their black mask and other dark markings set off the vermilion color so strikingly.

I was so excited when I spotted two males chasing each other from tree to tree. At first I was afraid to get too close for fear they'd fly away, but they were too involved in their little "game". Twenty minutes later, I was sitting in the center of the three trees they were flying between, and once they nearly flew into me! It was exceedingly difficult to get pics because they never stayed in the same place long. I finally figured out how to set my camera to take multiple shots and then I got some good ones.

*edited to take out blank space. I must have held the return key down.



This message was edited Mar 16, 2008 11:46 PM