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Northern Mockingbirds fighting
Bronzed Cowbird in display flightBetter late than never ... I finally had time to post some of the images from our South Texas Wildlife Photo Tour. We visited three ranches, and were quite successful with a wide variety of species. I did not keep a daily journal, so this trip report will illustrate that a picture equals a thousand words, so the report will be 'wordy' with images.
The important thing to consider here is that all of these images were made in six days of shooting, and I wasn't in the photo blinds as long or as often as our participants since I was either driving or leading our people to the blinds or baiting and setting up perches, and usually entered the blinds later and left earlier. Nonetheless, Mary and I got a lot of shooting in and, as usual, we enjoyed the shoot immensely. We'll be doing this again in 2017.


Black-throated Sparrow; Painted Bunting crash landing -- no bathing!


Olive Sparrow; Dickcissel


Brown-headed Cowbird scratching; House Sparrow begging


Northern Cardinal; Green Jay


Bullock's Oriole; Black-throated Sparrow


Curve-billed Thrasher; Ladder-backed Woodpecker


Lark Sparrow; Long-billed Thrasher


Verdin; Yellow Warbler


Bobwhite Quail; Crested Caracara mobbed by Mockingbird



Bullock's Oriole; Blue Grosbeak; Couch's Kingbird



Kiskadee; Couch's Kingbird, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher



Olive Sparrow; Brown-crested Flycatcher, Ground Dove



White-tipped Dove; Pyrrhuloxia; Black-crested Titmouse



Cactus Wren, Curve-billed Thrasher; Golden-fronted Woodpecker


Scaled Quail; Mexican Ground Squirrel


Desert Cottontails sparring; Dragonfly about to land
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