Normally I like to ramble on a bit, maybe even get philosophical. This time I think I’ll just stick to the photos, all of which I took when V and I were at the Rio Grande Birding Festival. Some great birds, including a Tamaulipas Crow, which was a life bird for me. Just like in the movie, The Big Year, we got it at the Brownsville Dump, even though Brownsville wasn’t part of the plan for the day. We just got lost and ended up there, like we were meant to see that small, rare, grackle-like crow. Isn’t birding fun?
Altamira Oriole
Tropical Kingbird
Snowy Egret
Long-billed Thrasher
Harris’s Hawk
Kiskadee
Eastern Screech Owl
Parauque
Long-billed Curlew
Green Jay
Tamaulipas Crow (from across the Brownsville dump)
Bird Noetz 