Long-billed Thrasher foraging for food in the leaf litter: video clip

One of the Rio Grande Valley's specialty birds (resident of So Texas & Eastern Mexico)is shown engaging in their distinctive feeding...

Black-vented Oriole: video clip of passerine harrassment

This very short video shows a passerine harassing the Black-vented Oriole. The little bird passes very close and may even have grazed the o...

Black-vented Oriole: still pics

The top pic shows almost all of the field marks for this stunning bird: black tail including vent area; black hood, wings and back; yellowi...

Black-vented Oriole: another video clip

This oriole is both quite large, due in part to it's long bill and tail, and quite striking with it"s contrasting black and yellowi...

BLACK-VENTED ORIOLE, rare vagrant

This is the first of several clips of a Black-vented Oriole, a very rare Mexican vagrant, that is foraging on the beautiful tubular flowers ...

Long-billed Curlew: foraging in Rio Grande Valley-TX

This was one of a flock of 20-25 Long-billed Curlews foraging on grubs and other curlew delights this afternoon. SeEtta

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,...

Back to TX: Cattle Egret flocks

These are a few of my pics of birds in the Rio Grande Valley I took a few weeks ago. Though we see Cattle Egrets in Colorado, I don't u...