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This bird came so close that I couldn't fit his head/beak into the frame. Brazos Bend State Park in SE Texas. 6/2018.
No points for art with this set, but hopefully interesting. Brazos Bend State Park in SE Texas
10/2015
I used my old Panasonic FZ30 to take this one. It really reminds me of how nice it was to have a 420 mm telephoto zoom. This one is very close to the same photo, only taken with my Rebel XTi with the kit lens. Man - I need to get a bigger lens for my Rebel!
Trail-blazed once again today. After having visited two state parks, one nature center and two national preserves, I have to say that Brazos Bend State Park and Armand Bayou Nature Center are my favorite. Hauled my freight along with with my gear around the trails of Brazos Bend today and had a wonderful time. This is the last shot I took before heading back to my car. It has been wonderful to get out of the city and into nature - so much so, that heading to the trails may become a weekly event.
Is it me, or is Flickr doing odd things with color these days? The detail I see in the feather on Flickr isn't the detail I see on my monitor before upload. Drives me nuts!
Once more, a little blurb about Brazos Bend State Park:
Brazos Bend State Park, a 5,000-acre gem on the Upper Texas Coast, is just 40 miles from downtown Houston and offers a wide variety of activities for every age: biking, fishing, hiking, birding, camping, star-gazing, and opportunities to learn about Texas’ bountiful natural history via free programs and guided hikes.
The park’s scenic terrain has been carved gently over time by the vigorous Brazos River, which marks its eastern boundary. Fragments of the ancient coastal prairie survive here as do dense bottomland hardwood forests and extensive marshes, making ideal habitats for the American alligator and a rich diversity of other reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. The park is an important refuge for birds, with more than 300 species recorded, and wildflowers abound during the warmer months, drawing a wealth of butterflies.
I have a dream, a song to sing
To help me cope with anything
If you see the wonder of a fairy tale
You can take the future even if you fail
I believe in angels
Something good in everything I see
I believe in angels
When I know the time is right for me
I'll cross the stream - I have a dream ...ABBA
Spring at Elm Lake
Brazos State Park
Texas
I'm going to leave everyone with a couple of shots here. I am switching interned providers tomorrow after MANY years with my present provider. I hope it is a fairly seamless switch, but reality always lets me know how QUICKLY things can get fouled up.
These two shots will be the last of the batch from Brazos Bend State Park. If you are ever in the Houston area you really need to pay it a visit. This Anhinga was threatening to leave the minute I walked up, but stayed the whole time while I tried to get some shots through the branches. I love to watch then crane and swivel their heads around and make noises.
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Brazos Bend State Park on July 22,2016. Long shot !!!!! There were several in the group. First time that I've seen so many in a group.
The oldest book in the Bible and one of my favorites besides the book of Ephesians - the letters of Paul.
I took this picture at Brazos Bend State Park where a few minutes earlier an alligator was in the way of this trail. The little girls were taken at the Houston Arboretum. I layered the two in Photoshop and used Florabella Actions for the color effect and used a texture by kk_subtlyyours.
Font by Biily Argel
The waterborne American Coot received distress call and runs for covers. Like many birds, they vertually runs on water!.
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Spillway Trail at Brazos Bend State Park
A first attempt at start photography with the new D700 and new (to me) 28-70 f/2.8 lens. This is MUCH better than the results I got with my D5000 and any lens (including 35 f/1.8). The sensor in this camera is just head and shoulders better than the little sensor in the D5000. Can't wait until I can get away from light pollution and the time of year/night is right for the milky way to come out.
Comments and constructive criticism welcome!
This alligator laying on the bank of 40 Acre Lake appears to be grinning from ear to ear. He was trying to soak in some rays at Brazos Bend State Park. The gators that I saw at Brazos Bend don't seem to have as much reserve fat stored as the gators at Armand Bayou. In spite of him having his head raised slightly off of the ground, he was having a difficult time keeping his eyes open. This one was in the 8 foot range, but my warning to the egret fishing in the previous post was to look out for some smaller alligators that I saw in his area.
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Photographed at: Brazos Bend State Park, Needville, Texas
www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/brazos-bend
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A smallish heron of the southeastern United States, the Little Blue Heron breeds in various freshwater and estuarine habitats. It is the only heron species in which first-year birds and adults show dramatically different coloration: first-year birds are pure white, while adults are blue.
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An American Alligator (Alligator Mississippiensis) eating a Red-Eared Slider (Trachemys Scripta Elegans) at Elm Lake in Brazos Bend State Park, Texas, USA.
This is probably my best shot of a Pied-billed Grebe to date and must admit that this is one of my nemesis birds. I might also add that this shot was taken on 40 Acre Lake at Brazos Bend State Park. They are a little more social there than they are on the bayou, but not by a huge margin. I'll someday get a capture of one of these that will be sharp and crisp, but first, I have to get close to one.
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