I went to this park for the first time yesterday. Wow! Lots of birds to share. Here's a Little Blue Heron.
Brazos Bend State Park birders paradise!
Green Heron
Black-Crowned Night Heron
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
Immature Yellow-Crowned Night Heron? It was a pretty dark day. I'm noticing these photos look really dark on this thread. Oh well. I'm still excited about all these water birds!
Yellow-Crowned Night Heron among the lilies.
Great Egret
No idea what this bird is called.
White Ibis in a tree.
Immature White Ibis
Some kind of heron with Black-bellied Whistling Ducks at a nest box in the background.
Egret and Black-bellied Whistling Ducks
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No idea what this bird is called.
Common Moorhen.
Nice selection of birds, but the water sure is polluted with Duck Weed.
Gary
This is what the ducks are looking at.
Gary, thanks for the ID!
Here's another one that I could not figure out. Didn't get any good shots of it either.
Anhinga?
Closer view.
This is my last one. I saw lots of these, but they were very hard to photograph. Didn't come anywhere near the path. All of them had gray beak and legs and a gray patch on the rump. Couldn't find anything that fit.
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Here's another one that I could not figure out.
Mississippi Kite
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All of them had gray beak and legs and a gray patch on the rump. Couldn't find anything that fit
An immature Little Blue Heron. The white immature birds become blotched with blue-gray as bird changes to adult plumage.
Gary
angele
May 18, 2008
Wow! I'm happy you had such a wonderful day. So green and lush. I absolutely love your posting at 12:58. It does look like a paradise for sure.
Angele, thanks! Lush is a good word!
Gary, thanks for the IDs! Also, there was a lot of duckweed (that's another one you've IDd for me!). The alligators seemed to like it. Can you find the alligator in this photo? Hint: just his head is sticking up out of the duckweed.
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Immature Yellow-Crowned Night Heron?
Yep!
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Anhinga?
Yep!
Ditto to Gary on the other idents.
Resin
Thanks for the confirmation Resin. Here's a sound ID question for ya. While I was taking the photo of the Mississippi Kite, I heard what I think were two owls calling to each other. It was about 6:15, so starting to get late but not dark yet. I was entering a thickly wooded area with lots of old trees with nesting cavities when I heard what sounded kind of like Mourning Doves the size of SUVs. OK, maybe not that big, but it was a huge sound. I only heard them a few times before they stopped. I wasn't able to spot them. What do you think?
Here's one of those cool trees with a potential nesting cavity. Can't resist uploading another photo!
Looks like a very cool place to visit!
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Here's a sound ID question for ya
Can't do much with the description, unfortunately! (and a recording wouldn't have helped either, as my computer sound system doesn't work). Try a web search for sound recordings of Great Horned Owl and Barred Owl, to see if either matches.
Resin
Elphaba...What a fantastic day you had..thanks for sharing all the fab pics!! I would love to visit there when I come to Texas later this year!!
Nice shots Elphaba! Glad you had such a great time!
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