BEAUTIFUL EAST TEXAS BIRDS
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"Now about the first of September, you will see flocks of small birds forming
compact and distinct masses, as if they were not only animated by one spirit but
actually held together by some invisible fluid or film, and will hear the sound
of their wings rippling or fanning the air as they flow through it, flying, the
whole mass, ricochet like a single bird, --or as they flow over the fence.
Their mind must operate faster than man's, in proportion as their bodies do." -- Henry David Thoreau, 1850 |
All pictures taken near West
Columbia, Texas
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| Male Red-Winged Blackbird | Female Red-Winged Blackbird | Baltimore Oriole | Eastern Bluebird | Blue Jay | Female Cardinal |
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| Male Cardinal | Carolina Wren | Black-Capped Chickadee |
Inca Dove |
Great White Egret |
Cattle Egret |
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“What a gem is a bird’s egg, especially a blue or a green one,
when you see one, broken or whole, in the woods!
…and is not that shell something very precious that houses winged life?”
Henry David Thoreau, July 30, 1852
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| Yellow-Shafted Flicker | Goldfinch |
Goose |
Red-Tailed Hawk | Little Blue Heron |
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| Louisiana Heron | Yellow-Crowned Night Heron | Immature Heron | Hummingbird | Killdeer |
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| American Eagle | White Ibis | Whistling Ducks | Pileated Woodpecker | Sandhill Cranes |
The moment one gives close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent world in itself.
—Henry Miller, novelist (1891-1980)
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Eastern Kingbird |
Thick-Billed Kingbird | Mississippi Kite | Mockingbird |
Barred Owl |
Robin |
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| Titmouse | Female Yellow Warbler | Male Yellow Warbler | Immature Yellow-Rumped Warbler | Red-Bellied Woodpecke | Immature Red-Bellied Woodpecker |
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| Male Purple Finch-Rare in this area. | Female Purple Finch | Female Hairy Woodpecker | Pine Siskin |
