Green Parakeets video: close to 500 birds stretch across the sky

Though I have seen the aggregation of Green Parakeets a couple of more times in McAllen, TX, the numbers have been reduced from the close to...

Green Parakeets: video clip of several hundred in flight

This is a very brief (only 13 seconds) but cool video clip that shows several hundred Green Parakeets flying together. They make a number o...

Green Parakeets--views of the more than 400 birds

It was so amazing to see so many Green Parakeets gathered on these utility lines I wanted to show their amazing numbers. These two pics sho...

Green Parakeets: video clip of gathering at dusk

This brief video clip shows the large aggregation of Green Parakeets though several more groups flew in after I took this. But it does give...

Green Parakeets: fussing and allopreening

These Green Parakeets really put on a show. Lots of fussing and feuding. And lots of allopreening , the mutual grooming that takes place i...

Green Parakeets, a Rio Grande Valley specialty

I love wild birds, rare or not-rare, I love them all (well, most all). Though I have seen wild parrots and parakeets a number of times duri...

Bright Pine Warbler

While birding in the Roselawn Cemetery I found this Pine Warbler, I believe a male, foraging in the same area as the Greater Pewee. SeEtta

Greater Pewee--check out that schnoz

Just one more pic that helps show off the yellow-orange mandible on it's bi-colored and very large bill on the Greater Pewee. (It's ...

Greater Pewee, a rare winter vagrant

I photographed this Greater Pewee in Roselawn Cemetery in McAllen,Tx. It was located by a gentleman from Idaho. These photos can be enlarg...

Quite a find--a Worm-eating Warbler

I have been enjoying not only Rio Grande Valley specialities but some migrating warblers these past 4 days. Today I birded Quinta Mazatlan,...