Birds of southeast Texas in photos

There’s a few young egrets and herons still at the rookery. The herons are amazing. This young one was kicking up a storm bellowing and flapping his wings and carrying on. I guess mom wasn’t feeding him quick enough. He settled down when she showed up.

Mom?

I’m hungry!

Where’s lunch?!?

Finally!

They really are like baby dinosaurs. The look and sound like prehistoric beasts.

I must be a native Texan now. I drove ~4 miles out of my way round trip to go through the drive through at Starbucks rather than use the walk in one down the street. I never would’ve down that in New England even in the dead of winter.

I was finally able to watch one of these green herons in action. You don’t see them as often as the Tricolored herons and when you do see them they are usually all scrunched up. For the longest time I didn’t realize they had long necks.

Hard to believe it’s the same bird.

This guy wasn’t having much luck with fishing today. Mostly he paced around.

It is amazing how fast they are, I’m not sure I could’ve caught him fishing with the camera even if he did manage to catch any.