When we got there we found one of our birding friends, Bev, and Gabriel, a young man whom we met yesterday at Estero Llano Grande. He had given us a little birding tour of the park.
Today, we saw several excellent birds (by excellent, I mean not the 'usual suspects').
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| Great Kiskadee |
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| The Huisache trees are in bloom and the scent is wonderful. |
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| Yellow-throated warbler |
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| Eastern Phoebe |
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| Brown Thrasher (we saw the Curve-Billed and Long-Billed thrashers yesterday) |
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| Newly-emerged, shiny sea grape leaf |
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| Bottlebrush tree in bloom |
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| Closeup on bottlebrush bloom and buds |
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| Yellow-throated warbler |
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| Adolescent male Rose-breasted Grosbeak |
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| Rose-breasted grosbeak with larva dinner |
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| Lesser yellowlegs |
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| Black-necked stilt with muck on his leg |
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| Greater Yellowlegs |
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| Pied-bill grebe with deformed leg up on his left side |
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| Normally-elusive Wilson's Snipe feeding out in the open |
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| Kildeer |
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| Spotted sandpiper (spots haven't appeared yet) |
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