Clapper Rail: So Padre Island resident

These cool rails are found mostly in salt marshes and mangroves including the marsh area along South Padre Island. The convention center bo...

Luscious lime green lizard at SPI Sanctuary

Besides all the cool birds at the So Padre Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary, I also saw two lizard species including this brilliantly colored...

Painted Bunting at So Padre Island Sanctuary

This is another bird that I saw at the So Padre Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary. This bird appears to be a male but it certainly is not in ...

So Padre Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary

Yesterday I drove out to So Padre Island, TX to enjoy the great birding opportunities that this barrier island provides. One of the hotspot...

Purple Sandpiper on So Padre Island

Today enjoyed a boat trip from So Padre Island to do a little birding with Fins To Feathers boat ecotours run by Scarlet and George Colley....

More good: Green-legged heron

Though clearly not blue, this is a Little Blue Heron. Immature Little Blue Heron's have white feathers with bluish gray ends on their pr...

So Padre Island-the good, the bad & the ugly

Today I visited So Padre Island, a wonderful barrier island just off the south Texas coast. The "good" is the birds that are stil...