One last visit with them while they’re still in the Valley. Between their stay here at Sandpipers and then out on the Island, it has been almost a month.
We walked around the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center for a while and watched the critters.
We found a sweet one to slow-motion feed.
And one to not feed.
It was a very nice day.
We do the laundry. We put the clean clothes on the couch for folding. Henry puts everything on the floor, except what he want to sleep on.
In this case, dad’s sock.
We get the clothes back on the couch and folded in-between Henry’s naps.
At the real zoo in Brownsville with Becky and Brian.
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Siamang Gibbons.
Very talkative.
But without the signs to tell you what you’re looking at.
Driving past game ranches in South Texas. We might spot an Axis Deer, native to India.
Or an Oryx from Southern Africa.
American Bison and Texas Longhorn from the American West.
With some small deer in front of them.
Tiny little antelope
Or this.
It’s not an ostrich. It’s not a cassowary or an emu. It could be a Rhea, a South American bird.
I misidentified a bird.
That least bittern I showed you yesterday.
It’s not a least bittern. It’s a young green heron that doesn’t have its adult colors yet.
Here is what the least bittern looks like.
(Not my photo.)
Completely different from the juvenile green heron, right?
So, as I said yesterday, the least bittern is the most difficult to spot of the three birds I described. Most years we don’t see one at all, and it turns out we haven’t yet this year either!
