…by way of Brownsville. Can’t get much farther south than this. In Corpus on Monday, we’ll do the last round of pre-surgery appointments; three in all. In the meantime, we hung out at Oliviera Park in Brownsville to watch the parrots come in to roost at dusk. Red-crowned parrots.
There are a lot of parrots here, maybe fifty or a hundred. That’s what most of them are, red-crowned. But then, we spot a red-lored parrot.
You can tell by the yellow on his cheeks. Year-bird! Number 400. We were on a mission to get to 400 before surgery, so I wouldn’t be so tempted to go back out to finish after. Made it. And after that, yellow-headed parrot.
You can tell by the yellow head. Number 401. A cushion. And then, and then
We think this might be two lilac-crowned parrots with a red-crowned parrot in the middle. See the difference in the red pattern on their heads? The red-crowned has more red across the top. If these do turn out to be lilac-crowned, that will be 402. Not only that, but lilac-crowned would be a lifer as well. Way cool. Birding rewards aren’t always immediate. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what you’ve seen and haven’t seen.
There are a lot of parrots here, maybe fifty or a hundred. That’s what most of them are, red-crowned. But then, we spot a red-lored parrot.You can tell by the yellow on his cheeks. Year-bird! Number 400. We were on a mission to get to 400 before surgery, so I wouldn’t be so tempted to go back out to finish after. Made it. And after that, yellow-headed parrot.You can tell by the yellow head. Number 401. A cushion. And then, and thenWe think this might be two lilac-crowned parrots with a red-crowned parrot in the middle. See the difference in the red pattern on their heads? The red-crowned has more red across the top. If these do turn out to be lilac-crowned, that will be 402. Not only that, but lilac-crowned would be a lifer as well. Way cool. Birding rewards aren’t always immediate. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what you’ve seen and haven’t seen.