South Padre Island the birds

Howdee all

We have left Padre Island and are heading to Mercedes to stay at an RV park with some friends we haven't seen in a while…and of course..what else, but do more birding.

While on Padre Island we birded several areas..

We saw great birds while walking the boardwalk of the Birding Center.

Lots of Terns and gulls, Our first  time seeing Franklins gull, and Sandwich terns.Check out the silly gull in the video below… 

 

Oh..i had to include this guy again..yelling at me for cutting off his tail..Common Moorhen American Avocet

Gulls, Terns, black skimmers and more

Willets and Dowitchers Clapper rail   Sandwich terns..with their yellow tipped bill and crazy hairstyle.. Tri-colored heron.. Snowy Egret

Mottled duck Solitary sandpiper..

check out that big white eye ring

I always think of men in tights and a tutu when I see the gawky looking Roseate spoonbill Lesser Yellowlegs These are the cutest ducks ever…

Black-bellied whistling ducks

Birds of the Day

Common yellowthroat,Great-tailed grackle,Northern parula
Ruby-throated hummingbird,Cat bird,Mockingbird,Great blue heron
Black-necked stilt,Common moorhen,Spotted sandpiper,Brown pelican
Tri-colored heron,Reddish egret,Black skimmer,Dunlin,Semi-palmated Plover
Willet,Short billed Dowitcher,Royal tern,Killdeer,Ring-billed gull
Laughing gull.Franklins gull.Caspian tern,Sandwich tern,Least tern
Rock Pigeon,Eurasian collared dove,Morning dove,Barn swallow
Marsh wren,Great Kiskadee,Purple Martin,Scissor-tailed flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird,Gull-billed tern,Red breasted merganser,Osprey
Marbled godwit,Barn swallow,Long billed curlew, Pie-billed grebe,
Mallard,Blue-winged teal,Great egret,Coot,Snowy egret,
Osprey,Peregrine Falcon,Sora,Clapper rail,Black-bellied Plover
Ruddy turnstone,Least sandpiper,Cattle egret,Solitary sandpiper
Pectoral sandpiper,Mottled duck,Lesser yellowlegs, Greater yellowlegs
Marsh wren,Sanderling,Killdeer,Roseate spoonbill,Savannah sparrow
Meadowlark,Brown Pelican, Double-crested Cormorant
Black-crowned night heron,Black-bellied Whistling-Duck