Non-birders just hang up now. Hit the delete key. We took a day trip to Choke Canyon State Park and Lake Corpus Christi. Black bellied whistling duckFulvous whistling duckGreater white fronted gooseSnow gooseRoss’s gooseAmerican wigeonMallardMottled duckBlue winged tealGreen winged tealCanvasbackRedheadRing necked duckPied billed grebeAmerican white pelicanNeotropic cormorantDouble crested cormorantAnhingaGreat blue heronGreat egretSnowy egretCattle egretBlack vultureTurkey vultureOspreyCooper’s hawkCrested caracaraAmerican kestrelCommon moorhenAmerican cootKilldeerBlack necked stiltLong billed curlewLaughing gullRing billed gullWhite winged doveMourning doveGolden fronted woodpeckerVermilion flycatcherGreat kiskadeeCouch’s kingbirdScissor tailed flycatcherLoggerhead shrikeGreen jayPurple martinCave swallowBarn swallowBewik’s wrenRuby crowned kingletNorthern mocking birdEuropean starlingYellow rumped warblerChipping sparrowNorthern cardinalPyrrhuloxiaRed winged blackbirdEastern meadowlarkGreat tailed grackleAmerican goldfinch Saw some deer, but no javelina. No wild turkeys. No roadrunners or phoebes. Always miss a few things.
Port aransas
The storms have passed. That was awful. It was so cold I had to put on long pants.
Port aransas
Big storm today. First a beautiful 75 degrees, then the front hit. Heavy thunderstorms. Immediate twenty degree drop in temperature. High wind up to 50 mph so far. Snow north of us in Dallas. Put up the window awnings, closed the bedroom slide, and hunkered down in the coach till this thing passes.
Port aransas
Rigs come and go. Some stand out. This one stands out. It’s sixty feet long (we’re forty). We didn’t know there was such a thing as a sixty foot coach. It’s not a pusher it’s a puller, so it’s got that semi-truck nose on it. Peterbilt front end. Four slides. He has a matching trailer but he had to leave it home because it won’t fit here. I can’t imagine it would fit anywhere except maybe a NASCAR infield. The coach itself doesn’t even fit here. Not much of a turning radius with that wheelbase. He left tire tracks over the sand and grass at every corner on the way in. Sixty feet long. Flames all over. $100,000 matching trailer. 30,000 pound towing capacity. I feel so inadequate.
Gulf waters
Our first oleander flower since December. It’s March. Spring is springing.