Better late than never ... I finally had time to post some of the images from our South Texas Wildlife Photo Tour. We visited three ranches, and were quite successful with a wide variety of species. I did not keep a daily journal, so this trip report will illustrate that a picture equals a thousand words, so the report will be 'wordy' with images.
The important thing to consider here is that all of these images were made in six days of shooting, and I wasn't in the photo blinds as long or as often as our participants since I was either driving or leading our people to the blinds or baiting and setting up perches, and usually entered the blinds later and left earlier. Nonetheless, Mary and I got a lot of shooting in and, as usual, we enjoyed the shoot immensely. We'll be doing this again in 2017.
Black-throated Sparrow; Painted Bunting crash landing -- no bathing!
Olive Sparrow; Dickcissel
Brown-headed Cowbird scratching; House Sparrow begging
Northern Cardinal; Green Jay
Bullock's Oriole; Black-throated Sparrow
Curve-billed Thrasher; Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Lark Sparrow; Long-billed Thrasher
Verdin; Yellow Warbler
Bobwhite Quail; Crested Caracara mobbed by Mockingbird
Bullock's Oriole; Blue Grosbeak; Couch's Kingbird
Kiskadee; Couch's Kingbird, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Olive Sparrow; Brown-crested Flycatcher, Ground Dove
White-tipped Dove; Pyrrhuloxia; Black-crested Titmouse
Cactus Wren, Curve-billed Thrasher; Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Scaled Quail; Mexican Ground Squirrel
Desert Cottontails sparring; Dragonfly about to land
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