5/2, Thursday
Went to South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center today. Saw Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbirds, Great-tail Grackles, Tri-Color Heron, Osprey, Black-bellied Whistling duck, alligator, Least Bittern, Red Winged Blackbird, cormorant, American Coot, Eurasian Collared Dove, Mottled duck, Black duck, Red Headed duck, Great egret, Reddish egret, Snowy egret, Common Gallinule, Laughing gull, Great Blue heron, Green heron, Little Blue heron, Yellow Crowned Night heron, American Oystercatcher, Brown pelican, Baird’s Sandpiper, Dunlin, Least Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone sandpiper, Solitary sandpiper, Spotted sandpiper, Loggerhead Shrike, Black Necked Stilt, Caspian tern, Gull Billed tern, Least tern, Slider turtle, and a Magnolia Warbler.

Black Bellied Whistling Duck
Red Winged Blackbirds


Reddish Egret
Snowy Egret shaking off after a preening.













Heron preening