A young local working on its look. 🌿 Watching this juvenile roseate spoonbill preening at Smith Oaks never gets old. 🪶✨
📍 High Island, Texas
🗓️ Apr 3, 2026
🕒 8 AM
📸 Canon EOS R50 + RF 100-400
⚙️ 400mm | f/11 | ISO 8300
#RoseateSpoonbill #TexasBirds #SmithOaks #CanonR50 #Birding #Wildlife
Morning drama at Smith Oaks Rookery. 🌿 Watching an argument break out between these Neotropic cormorants never gets old. 🪶🗯️
📍 High Island, TX
🗓️ Apr 3, 2026
📸 Canon R50 + RF 100-400
⚙️ 400mm | f/11 | ISO 8300
#NeotropicCormorant #TexasBirds #SmithOaks #CanonR50 #Birding #Wildlife
A tricolored heron showing off its spring colors. 🌿 That unique slate and rusty plumage never gets old. 🪶✨
📍 High Island, TX
🗓️ Apr 3, 2026
📸 Canon R50 + 1.4x
⚙️ 560mm | f/11 | ISO 100
#TricoloredHeron #TexasBirds #SmithOaks #CanonR50 #Birding #Wildlife
A pair of locals at Smith Oaks Rookery. 🌿 While they’re common here, that vibrant pink plumage of roseate spoonbills never gets old. 🪶💖
📍 High Island, Texas
🗓️ Mar 22, 2026
🕒 10 AM
📸 Canon EOS R50 + RF 100-400 + 1.4x
⚙️ 394mm | f/11 | ISO 100
#RoseateSpoonbill #TexasBirds #SmithOaks #CanonR50
I’m not sure if I’d call it a #manmadeperch or a #naturalperch, but regardless of which, this 🪶Willet decided to poss handsomely for me.
#BirdOfTheDay #TexasBirds
A double-crested cormorant floats on calm water with wings spread wide to dry, its dark body reflected clearly on the smooth surface beneath it.
A double-crested cormorant holds its wings open after a dive, water still clinging to dark feathers as its reflection ripples below. A classic drying posture, perfectly mirrored on calm water. 🪶 #bird #DoubleCrestedCormorant #Cormorant #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #TexasBirds
🪶ROPIs just aren’t given enough credit. They truly are beautiful birds.
Prove me wrong.
#BirdOfTheDay #Pigeons&Doves
#TexasBirds
Yellow-rumped Warbler perched on a thin branch among thorny twigs, facing right, with muted brown and gray plumage and a small yellow patch near the tail.
A Yellow-rumped Warbler tucked into thorny branches, perfectly at home where most birds won’t linger. These small details are easy to miss until you slow down and really look. 🐦
#BirdPhotography #YellowRumpedWarbler #WildlifePhotography #NatureDetails #TexasBirds
Ice Cold Birdseed #northerncardinal #bullcreek #texasbirds #birdbuddy #backyardbirds #bestbirdshots
Slow Motion Goldfinch #lessergoldfinch #bullcreek #texasbirds #birdbuddy #backyardbirds #bestbirdshots
Green Jays in central Texas
#nature #photography #birdphotography #wildlife #outdoorphotography #naturephotography #birdwatching #BirdOfTheDay #greenjay #texasbirds #canonr6mk2 #canon100-500mmlens
Happy NewYear to all who follow and many special thanks to @alan678.bsky.social and @robcrank68.bsky.social for creating a fun environment to appreciate birds!
An elegant 🪶Black-necked Stilt in the still shallows.
#BirdOfTheDay #Reflections
#TexasBirds
Male spotted towhee sitting on a tree branch
Male spotted towhee sitting on tree branch
Finally got a picture of a spotted towhee 😃
#towheetuesday #tuesdaytowhee #tuesday #mardi #martes #blueskytuesday #birdsoftheworld #birdintexas #texasbirds #birdpins #birdoftheday #naturephotography #photographie #oiseaux
#Birding, #TexasBirds
I looked in my Birds of Texas book, thought it was an American Kestrel, but he doesn't have vertical blk lines on face.
Please, tell me who this is. Thanks!
Tufted Titmouse #tuftedtitmouse #bullcreek #texasbirds #birdbuddy #backyardbirds #bestbirdshots
A 🪶Black-bellied Whistling Duck takes a break on a fence showing me a picture-perfect profile. #BirdOfTheDay #DucksOutOfWater
#TexasBirds
Golden hour hunter. A short-eared owl making a last pass over Atwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge.
Feb 2025 - #texas
#throughmylens #shortearedowl #atwaterprairiechicken #birdphotography #naturelovers #owlphotography #goldenhour #texaswildlife #conservationphotography #texasbirds
Juvenile Male Northern Cardinal #northerncardinal #bullcreek #texasbirds #birdbuddy #backyardbirds #bestbirdshots
#stunday #egret #snowyegret #bird #birds #wildlife #texaswildlife #texasbirds #portaransas #bwphotography #wildlifephotography
This Texas bird was at the center of a lengthy legal battle involving Texas and the federal government. In this Texas Tea, producer Allan Wang tell you about the Golden-cheeked warbler and all the drama surrounding it. #texasnature #texasbirds #goldencheekedwarbler
This burrowing owl posed perfectly just outside El Paso. Canon R50V making wildlife moments sharp and clear.
Burrowing owl spotted near El Paso, Texas. Small but full of attitude. Captured with the Canon R50V in golden desert light.
#BurrowingOwl #ElPasoWildlife #CanonR50V #TexasBirds #WildlifePhotographer #NaturePhoto
Yellow-billed cuckoo with its beak open and eyes closed sitting in the palm of the poster’s hand; brown bird with white/cream underbelly, its beak a lower yellow and upper black color. They also have white spots under its tail feathers.
Yellow-billed cuckoo squinting while perched in the poster’s hands; brown bird with white/cream underbelly, its beak a lower yellow and upper black color. They also have white spots under its tail feathers.
A poor yellow-billed cuckoo smacked into our window today & mom needed me to pick it up & move it bc we didn’t want the cats to get it
I set em on a branch somewhere & hopefully they recover :’)
#birds #texasbirds
Male House Finch #housefinch #bullcreek #texasbirds #birdbuddy #backyardbirds #bestbirdshots
Least flycatcher spotted hunting our drain field #texasbirds #birding #atxbirds
