Showing posts with label water-and-wetlands-wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water-and-wetlands-wildlife. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2015

On the merits of re-purposing mattresses


Downstream ingenuity, turtle-style 

Pair of turtles on a float at the storm water detention pond 

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Avian Trios

Birds in groups of three 

Three cormorants 
Three ibises 
Two egrets (white) and a night heron 
A great white egret, a snowy egret, and a night heron 

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Bayou wetlands and wildlife in the Spring



Buffalo Bayou ecosystem explained on
trail-side educational poster - squirrel sitting in the grass underneath 




Confluence of Langham Creek and Buffalo Bayou 

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Birding in March & April in West Houston

Ibis foraging in a wet field in Barker Reservoir 
Great White Egret at Lake off S Barker Cypress Road in
George Bush Park 
Great White Egret at Detention Pond off Westpark at Hwy 6 
Red-winged blackbird with red shoulder patches (photo)
The red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) 

Black-bellied whistling ducks lined up in a row 
Grackle on a Wetlands sign in Spring-time meadow
at lake near Beltway 
A pair of black-bellied whistling ducks in profile 


Bevy of coots and a pelican, with water tower 

A trio of ibises 
Ibises at the storm water detention pond between Eldridge and Highway 6
at West Park 
Lone blackbird on tree at North Dairy Ashford 

Black vultures perching high up in trees near Westlake 
Egret taking off from a pine tree 
Black-bellied whistling ducks are gregarious 

 .. and these ducks are also a lot of fun to watch 
There is always a lot of action, if not commotion.

Duck pond adjoining playground at Memorial Drive segment
of Terry Hershey Park 
Black vultures and ducks flocking at Harris County road-maintenance facility 
in Bear Creek Park