Fall 2013 images from Texas:

Updated: Sunday December 22, 2013

Enjoy the birds and photos below...I certainly did while I was taking them!

Erik Breden
Harlingen, Texas
erik.breden@otterside.com

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December 21st - Santa Ana NWR Christmas Bird Count, Alamo, TX

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It's that time of year again, when birders spend all day counting (or at least looking for) birds for the annual Christmas Bird Counts. This year was exceedingly windy, which kept most birds out of sight.

  • Harris's Hawk
  • Red Admiral
  • Mexican Bluewing
  • Laviana White-Skipper
  • Variegated Meadowhawk
  • Walking Stick
  • Braconid Wasp Cocoon

December 20th - La Sal Vieja Christmas Bird Count, Elsa, TX

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It's that time of year again, when birders spend all day counting birds for the annual Christmas Bird Counts.

  • Sandhill Crane
  • Northern Mockingbird
  • Merlin
  • Loggerhead Shrike

November 29th - Gladys Porter Zoo, Brownsville, TX

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We had company visiting from far west Texas, and decided to visit the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville the day after Thanksgiving.

  • Snowy Egret
  • Crowned Crane
  • American Flamingo
  • Marabou Stork
  • Mandarin Duck
  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Peruvian Thick-knee
  • Cottontop Tamarin
  • Pileated Gibbon
  • Orangutan
  • Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur
  • African Lion
  • South American Crocodile
  • Texas Spiny Softshell Turtle

November 21st - Odes at Route 100 Resaca, Olmito, TX

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  • Eastern Amberwing
  • Rambur's Forktail

November 19th - Amazon Kingfisher at Route 100 Resaca, Olmito, TX

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  • Amazon Kingfisher
  • Great Egret
  • Queen Butterfly

November 9th - Amazon Kingfisher at Route 100 Resaca, Olmito, TX

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  • Amazon Kingfisher
  • Green Kingfisher
  • Sickle-winged Skipper

November 5th - Fork-tailed Flycatcher at Boca Chica, TX

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  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher

November 4th - Boca Chica Beach, TX

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  • Franklin's Gull
  • Forster's Tern
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Royal Tern
  • Snowy Egret
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • American Oystercatcher
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Green Sea Turtle

November 3rd - Backyard Butterflies, Harlingen, TX

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  • Cassius Blue
  • Ceraunus Blue
  • Phaon Crescent
  • Funereal Duskywing
  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Brown Longtail
  • Bordered Patch
  • White Peacock
  • Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak
  • Eufala Skipper
  • Fiery Skipper
  • White-patched Skipper
  • Ermine Moth
  • Mystery "Bug"

October 26th - Route 281 Rest Area, Falfurrias, TX

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  • Painted Redstart

October 13th to 19th - Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM

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  • Western Bluebird
  • Dark-eyed (Pink-sided) Junco
  • Dark-eyed (Gray-headed) Junco
  • Western Scrub-Jay
  • Chimney Rock
  • Barrel Cactus
  • Prickly-Pear Cactus
  • Sheep
  • Common Checkered-Skipper
  • Checkered White

September 17th - South Padre Island, TX

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  • Great-tailed Grackle
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Common Green Darner
  • Blue Dasher

August 22nd - South Padre Island, TX

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  • Western Sandpiper
  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • Hibiscus Flower

Shorebirds! - August 8th - South Padre Island, TX

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  • Marbled Godwit
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Piping Plover
  • Snowy Plover
  • Baird's Sandpiper
  • Great Southern White

Backyard Butterflies, "Critters", and Birds - July 17th to October 26th - Harlingen, TX

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  • Gray Hairstreak
  • Cassius Blue
  • Bordered Patch
  • Common Nighthawk
  • Scale Insect
  • Rainbow
  • Mediterranean Gecko
  • Ceraunus Blue
  • Common Mestra
  • Southern Skipperling
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Little Yellow

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