Texas. LRGV part 3: Waterbirds 1

All photos taken at the amazing South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center, where the new boardwalks give wonderful photographic opportunities. Here is some evidence from an amateur photographer:

Great White Egret and Laughing Gulls competing for food

There was only one possible outcome...




Clapper Rail



Least Sandpiper

Roseate Spoonbill


Lesser Yellowlegs

Marsh Wren


Tricoloured Heron

Black-bellied (Grey) Plover


Little Heron plus a birding gentleman who gave me something that he said changed his life: a Gideon's Bible

American Coot



Great (White) Egret

Caspian Tern





Snowy Egret

Pied-billed Grebe