Birds of southeast Texas in photos

Wild and garden bird photos from southeastern Texas

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Birds in the news

  • Backyard bird count time
  • Want sexier goldfinches? Plant thistle
  • Gangsta birds
  • Bird of a different color? Blame the humidity
  • Pigeons prefer to gamble
  • Vultures blush too
  • Turn out your lights to keep songbirds from waking you up
  • Robins see magnetic fields
  • Plant a few trees and create a migratory rest area for birds
  • Sparrows breast bib and bill a sign of manliness
  • Gulf Coast Oil Disaster
  • Mirgration patterns changing in birds
  • Mom communicates with chicks prior to hatching
  • Birds migrate with their noses
  • Wild crows with tools
  • Take part in the great backyard bird count
  • How the duck got his spiral
  • Feed the birds, split the species?

    • Notes

  • Of mockingbirds and cats
  • Confused warbler
  • Brighter eggs keep male birds interested in offspring
  • Houston’s coastal birding areas quiet after Ike
  • Hummingbird at Cat’s Whisker’s
  • 6 tips for better bird photography
  • Bryan Beach State Park
  • Fishing heron
  • The goldfinches are passing through
  • Missing herons
  • Hummingbirds everywhere!
  • Oh baby the sun has returned
  • Green heron spotted by PalmerWoods and Cochran’s Crossing
  • Baby ducklings everywhere
  • Large numbers of hummingbirds appearing now
  • Saw my first roadrunners today
  • Almost hummingbird time
  • How to get a bird out of your house
  • Great blue heron eating a frog
  • Progress keeping the squirrels out of the bird feeders
  • Mocking birds and squirrels

    • Resources

  • The Bird Book available online

    • Rookeries

  • Herons at the rookery
  • High Island Rookery, Houston
  • Rookery is getting busy again
  • Egrets at rookery
  • Baby heron raising a ruckus
  • Herons left, just egrets at the rookery now
  • Another visit to the rookery
  • New rookery discovered on Lake Wedgewood

    • Bird photos

  • Short billed dowitcher
  • Western Willet
  • In cooperative breeders females outshine the males
  • Yellow rumped warbler
  • Roseate Spoonbill
  • Juvenile purple gallinule
  • Brown thrasher
  • Juvenile Brown Pelican
  • Bonaparte’s gull juvenile
  • Black chinned hummingbird female
  • Moorhen
  • Black crowned night heron
  • Yellow crowned night heron
  • Osprey defending his dinner from a seagull
  • American Brown pelican
  • Pileated woodpecker
  • Purple gallinule
  • Raven
  • Red heron
  • Red shoulder hawk
  • Red bellied woodpecker
  • Road runner
  • Scarlet ibis
  • Migrating robins
  • Snow geese wintering over
  • Ruby Throated Hummingbird
  • Snowy egret
  • Titmouse
  • Tri-colored heron
  • Turkey vulture
  • Bewick’s wren
  • Great white egret
  • White pelican
  • Ruby throated hummingbirds
  • House finch
  • Robins
  • White ibis
  • Juvenile mocking bird
  • Carolina Wood ducks
  • Laughing gull
  • Loggerheaded Shrikes
  • Little blue heron
  • Mocking bird
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Kiskadee
  • Great blue heron
  • Glossy ibis
  • Black Necked Stilt and babies
  • Juvenile White Ibis
  • Blue jay
  • Green jay
  • Green heron
  • Great tailed grackel
  • Goldfinch
  • Egyptian Goose
  • Egret fishing
  • Duck
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Commerant
  • Chickadee
  • Cardinal
  • Long billed curlew
  • Black Vultures
  • Black Bellied Whistling Ducks
  • Anhinga
  • American Coot
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