BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON: Digiscoped pics

Today the BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON provided just awesome views as it foraged for more than an hour at fairly close distance at Bentsen-Rio ...

BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON--saw it again

I was hoping to get some video of the Bentsen Tiger-Heron so walked out on the levee south of the Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park a little bef...

BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON: videos from internet

I found these two good videos of BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERONS videotaped in Costa Rica by different persons. The top video by "doctorpys...

BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON-Belize pic

©Michael Packer (copied here by permission) I found this image on the on the internet at PackerLight.com and found it helpful in visualizin...

Another Bare-throated Tiger-Heron photo

This really pretty cool pic of the BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON was buried just to left of the middle of the uncropped pic below. Look careful...

More BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON pics

These are the next 3 pics in the sequence of photos I took during the 2nd flight of the BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON. The bird was well past us...

BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON-2nd flight

This is part of a series of pics I took during the 2nd flight of the BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON this afternoon. Each of these pics was taken...

BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON PICS

This afternoon a group of us were given a great Christmas gift--killer views of the BARE-THROATED TIGER-HERON flying not just one time in th...

Saw the Bare-throated Tiger-Heron

Tonight on my third try to see the probable first U.S. record Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, it appeared. Unfortunately it was almost dark and ...

Nice distraction--White-tailed Kite

Today I spent some hours with many other birders watching for a super rarity--a Bare-throated Tiger-Heron that was found last night near Ben...

Sing,sing a song-White-eyedVireo

I was fortunate to catch this White-eyed Vireo in song today at the Santa Ana NWR. I was on my way down the 'hawk tower' so for a c...

Bright Great Kiskadees

Fortunately the sun had come out by the time I photographed this Great Kiskadee at Santa Ana NWR today. It's bright yellow plumage show...

"Interesting hawk" is a Gray Hawk

I received several emails this morning about the hawk in my prior post that I found at Santa Ana NWR--all said it was a Gray Hawk. One of t...

Interesting hawk at Santa Ana

I found this hawk this morning east of the Pintail Lake trail. Unfortunately the tree was perched in a tree well over a hundred feet away (...

Wintering Pine Warbler @SantaAnaNWR

Today was the Christmas Bird Count at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge which is located on the border of Mexico. Though small by National...

Last but not least pics of N.Jacana

I really liked the views of the yellow bill that extends up towards it's crown. The chestnut colored feathers on it's back and cove...

Flight pics of N. Jacana

It was cloudy when I photographed this jacana and I am afraid that this ate up the color of the actually quite attractive yellow flight feat...

Rare N. Jacana In Texas

I am now down in Texas for some birding and for temperatures nicer than th 16 below, followed by 10 below, followed by 6 below zero we had i...

Risks to polar bears from a warming climate

Watch this informative video featuring a scientist, who is has extensively studied polar bears in the field, discussing the risks that face ...

More Red-naped pics

The top pic shows off the head pattern found on male Red-naped Sapsuckers--this one has a good patch of red on it's nape, red crown show...

And the Abbey's Red-naped Sapsucker

Now that I have posted pics of male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Centennial Park as well as the female Williamson's and Yellow-bellied Sa...

Canon City's female YB Sapsucker

This is the female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker I found at the Abbey in Canon City, CO last week. I found her the same day I found a male Red-n...