Photo Gallery
Allen Codding; John Hickok; Jon Feenstra
The upper Texas coast is well-known for spring migrants… (like this Northern Parula)
…where birds crossing the Gulf drop into coastal woodlands…
Sometimes the birds are bright like a Scarlet Tanager… (Photo: John Hickok)
…or a Prothonotary Warbler…
…or a Hooded Warbler.
Other times they are subtle like a Worm-eating Warbler…
…or a posing Chuck-wills-widow.
All are often visible from a trail or boardwalk. (Or, bleachers!)
But, there’s more to southeast Texas, like bayou forest… (Photo: Allen Codding)
…and mountainous plates of Cajun food…
…and interior woodlands with the likes of snappy Red-headed Woodpeckers… (Photo: Allen Codding)
…or an endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker…
…or a low-perched, singing Bachman’s Sparrow. (Photo: Allen Codding)
The coastal wetlands like Anahuac NWR are also happening places…
…holding many specialties like Fulvous Whistling-Ducks…
…and Purple Gallinules striding about… (Photo: Allen Codding)
…or a normally skulky Least Bittern, seen here not skulking…
…and nesting colonies of Snowy Egrets… (Photo: John Hickok)
…and Roseate Spoonbills. (Photo: Allen Codding)
The immediate Gulf coast is also on our itinerary.
We’ll look for gulls, and terns, and shorebirds… (Photo: Allen Codding)
…like endangered Piping Plover… (Photo: Allen Codding)
…or rowdy flocks of terns. (Photo: John Hickok)
And, always, if we’re lucky we might happen into a vagrant, like a Whooping Crane…
…or a Fork-tailed Flycatcher. (Photo: Allen Codding)
The closer we look, the more we’ll see!