Author: Steve

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My best bird today.  White-tailed Kite.

It used to be called a black-shouldered Kite, but either way works.

Its range touches the U.S. but just barely.  Mostly a Central and South America bird.

Impeccably dressed.

At the birding center.

With kids on it!

And parents.

And a view of the boardwalk and flats below.

A view of the bay side.  The Laguna Madre.   A vast, extra-saline, warm nursery for the bigger creatures that live in the Gulf.

With the bridge to get here in the background.

And the view from the deck.