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Hermit thrush is a winter visitor to our neighborhood. This one has been coming in to enjoy the bird bath on a regular basis this winter. Here it seems to be engaging in a kind of dance along the fence. Quite fancy moves.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during February 2020
This male was flashing his red cap and showing of his wing bars. Maybe he was trying to impress a female.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during September 2019.
This laughing gull landed so close that I had to back up in order to get his portrait. I'm guessing it has learned to expect people to feed it when they are at this park in Rockport, Texas. Feeding the gulls has some bad repercussions so I don't, but a lot of people enjoy doing so. But, this one posed for a photo and then flew away.
The queen is one of the species that uses milkweed as a host for the larva. I understand this makes the caterpillars and butterflies taste bad to birds and other predators, a handy defense. The underside of the wings are similar to the Monarch butterfly, but the upperside is more plain brown and the butterfly is quite a bit smaller than a monarch. This one gave me a view of both sides of the wings as it perched on a butterfly milkweed that was blooming in the yard.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during November 2020
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Following knee replacement surgery at the end of September, I only got out one day with my camera for a few minutes. I was not an easy task with a cane but I was needing a photography fix. This was the only picture I got and I was happy this young spiny lizard agreed to pose on the fence wire.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas in October 2021
I found this description on the Audubon bird page:
A bizarre series of hoots, whistles, and clucks, coming from the briar tangles, announces the presence of the Yellow-breasted Chat. The bird is often hard to see, but sometimes it launches into the air to sing its odd song as it flies, with floppy wingbeats and dangling legs, above the thickets. This is our largest warbler, and surely the strangest as well, seeming to suggest a cross between a warbler and a mockingbird.
They spend summers, breeding and nesting, in our area. They come into the yard for bits of fruit, jelly and suet or to visit the bird baths.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas in May 2022
The hummingbirds were all defending their preferred feeding stations against intruders. I got this juvenile (foreground) and adult male ruby-throated hummingbirds ready to go at each other. The adult won for the moment. As if the feeder in question did not have multiple drinking ports.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during summer 2020
A gulf fritillary and a southern dogface butterfly on my red salvia blooms. These were seen in Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during November 2021. We don't currently have many blooming wildflowers due to lack of rain.
A member of the warbler family showing off the yellow breast. This one is posing on a driftwood tree section that we moved into our yard.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas in May 2022
Female cardinals don't get as much attention as their bright red male partners, but they are very pretty birds. Beige/grayish with bits of red and the bright orange beak that really stands out.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during December 2019
Generally century plants (a variety of agave) have one tall spike with multiple clusters of flowers. Once the plant blooms, it begins to die. This particular plant was stunted for some reason and the spike was pretty short and only had one bloom cluster. It was a bit disappointing in that respect. However this hooded oriole was pleased with the nectar supply, I think.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during May 2020
This female (not really sure, but probably a black-chinned) hummingbird was enjoying playing in the spray from a nearby water sprinkler. On hot, dry days most of the birds in our area will show up for a water sprinkler.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during summer 2020
Eastern bluebirds live around me but are not particularly bold about showing themselves to me. This male was on a mission to visit the birdbath and spent a bit of time while I watched. Luckily, I had the camera on hand. The bluebird of happiness, indeed.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas
Two female hummingbirds in a mirror-image flight near one of the feeders.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas in September 2021
A nice little flycatcher that seemed to always be following me around. May not have been the same one each time but it was fun to think so. It seemed genuinely curious about me and posed nicely.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during July 2020
Female cardinals don't get as much attention as their bright red male partners, but they are very pretty birds. Beige/grayish with bits of red and the bright orange beak that really stands out.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas during December 2019
Beautiful species of warbler seen at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center in Port Aransas, Texas during spring migration.
This species of swallowtail butterfly is one I haven't seen often on our place. My photos just don't do justice to the brilliant beauty of these fluttering about among the wildflowers in our meadow. They definitely showed preference for the lavender flowers on the prairie verbena.
Montell, Uvalde County, Texas.
This white-eyed vireo was foraging among the needles of a cedar tree. Didn't always get a view of the eyes but did get some shots of identification marks such as the wing bars, yellow eye line, and one good shot of the white eye and observed typical behavior. They are fast and tiny.
In Montell, Uvalde County.