Photo Gallery
Allen Codding; John Hickok; Jon Feenstra
The upper Texas coast is well-known for spring migrants… (like this Northern Parula)
…where birds crossing the Gulf drop into coastal woodlands…
Sometimes the birds are bright like a Scarlet Tanager…
…or a Prothonotary Warbler…
…or a Hooded Warbler.
Other times they are subtle like a Worm-eating Warbler…
…or a posing Chuck-wills-widow.
All are often visible from a trail or boardwalk. (Or, sometimes benches or bleachers!)
But, there’s more to southeast Texas, like bayou forest…
…and mountainous plates of Cajun food…
…and interior woodlands with the likes of snappy Red-headed Woodpeckers…
…or an endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker…
…or a low-perched, singing Bachman’s Sparrow. (Photo: Allen Codding)
The coastal wetlands like Anahuac NWR are also happening places…
…holding many specialties like Fulvous Whistling-Ducks…
…and Purple Gallinules striding about…
…or a normally skulky Least Bittern, seen here not skulking…
…and nesting colonies of Snowy Egrets… (Photo: John Hickok)
…and Roseate Spoonbills. (Photo: Allen Codding)
The immediate Gulf coast is also on our itinerary.
We’ll look for gulls, and terns, and shorebirds… (Photo: Allen Codding)
…like endangered Piping Plover…
…or a colorful feeding phalanx of American Avocets.
The coastal saltmarshes also harbor local residents like the subtle Seaside Sparrow.
And, always, if we’re lucky we might happen into a vagrant, like a Whooping Crane…
…or a Fork-tailed Flycatcher. (Photo: Allen Codding)
The closer we look, the more we’ll see!