I spent a week in Texas earlier this year. Not on tour, just chasing a few birds, photographing a lot of things, and getting reacquainted with all the cool stuff the Rio Grande Valley has to offer.
Here are a bunch of shots.
Fork-tailed Flycatcher near Dallas:
Great Kiskadee:
Golden-crowned Warbler:
Bronzed Cowbird:
Green Parakeet:
Ok, LOTS of Green Parakeets:
Spotted Sandpiper on the banks of the Rio Grande:
Altamira Oriole:
Green Jay:
Morelet's Seedeater in the Zapata library pond veg:
Plain Chachalaca:
Red-bordered Pixie:
Eastern Screech-Owl:
Plain Chachalaca:
Yep, more Plain Chachalaca:
White-tipped Dove:
Altamira Oriole:
Olive Sparrow:
Green Jay:
A young White-tailed Hawk:
Burrowing Owl:
Red-crowned Parrot:
Green Kingfisher:
Common Pauraque:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck:
Tropical Kingbird:
Rock Pigeon being weird:
Tricolored Heron:
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron also being weird:
Orange-crowned Warbler:
The Rio Grande with Mexico in the background:
Hook-billed Kite:
A big tree, THE Big Tree near Goose Island. It's a Live Oak that's 1000+ years old: