Home again at Sandpipers

 

Random photos from the trip.

 

A Lincoln sparrow and female cardinal.

 

Reflections.

 

This is what wild pigeons normally look like.  Coincidentally, this is exactly what homing pigeons look like too.

 

Here is a red one.

 

I always liked red colored pigeons.  When I was fifteen, and raising pigeons, I had one.  Dad used to take the homing pigeons off to work with him and let them go from progressively farther away while I waited at home for them to come back.  That worked out pretty well.  Most of them came back.  I think we got as far as 20 miles away, which is actually a pretty simple challenge for a homer.  They can find their way home from hundreds of miles away.

 

A red shouldered hawk, I think.

 

 

The Morning View

 

 

We had to lower the shades for morning coffee, the sun was so bright, but we powered through.

 

Did the round trip to Corpus today.

 

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Remembered to drop off the batteries we brought up for recycling.  Had our Snoopy’s lunch.  Saw an American Oystercatcher.  Took the little car ferry from Port Aransas to Aransas Pass and back to Goose Island.

 

Here is what the ship channel looks like from Charlie’s Pasture.

 

Charlie’s Pasture

 

Afternoon happy time at the birding center.

 

Birding Center

 

Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

 

A little north of us.

 

Goose Island area

 

 

 

 

 

Got to be careful where you step.  This scene looks innocent enough, right?

 

Don’t try walking right up to the water.  There is a tiny patch along the shore in the middle of the frame that doesn’t look quite right.  Zoom in a little.

 

And that spot looks downright leathery.

 

Went around onto a deck and took a shot looking down from above.

 

That’s a big-ass gator!

 

All’s fun and games on the boardwalk though.

 

 

And it was a two-bobcat day!  Fleeting looks twice.  Not long enough for photos this time.