After having a great time birding at South Llano State Park, we decided to stay home in San Angelo and see if we could have another sucessful day. We did, counting 41 species and getting some nice photographs. It was another gorgeous day weather-wise, windy early but beautiful later on. Here are some highlights of that excursion.
Hooded Merganser – female
Hooded Merganser – male
These Hooded Mergansers were gliding along nearly side by side. I was lucky to be able to get these close-ups, thanks to my Tamron 150-600mm lens. All of the images in this post were taken with that particular lens, attached to my Canon EOS 70D.
Dark-eyed Jumco – slate-colored
The Junco was the first we had seen here in the past two years. They are not present all the time.
White-crowned Sparrow
I cute little sparrow with the distinctive white bars on the crown.
Wilson’s Snipe
The Wilson’s Snipe was all alone, just doing his thing, looking for food along the opposite bank of the river.
Carolina Wren
Another bird that I have been missing seeing is the Carolina Wren. They pretty much stay hidden, like this one that is trying to stay out of sight.
American White Pelicans
I was able to practice getting birds in flight with this image of the two American White Pelicans.
After another sucessful day we headed home where I started to post-process all these, and more, images. We added two more birds to our Big Year List. The Dark-eyed Junco and the Carolina Wren. Total is now 111.
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Texas Tweeties by Bob Zeller 