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Red shouldered hawk doing red shouldered hawk things, which this time of year is being very noisy.

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Saw a different woodpecker today - yellow crown and grey wings. I wish I'd gotten a photo but, okay I just stood there and watched. Not running the little chainsaw. This is the second time I've been stopped by a woodpecker, clearing up this patch of woods with so many dead firs. A lot of the fir trees are blue on the inside, and apparently that's a fungus spread by bark beetles, so it appears the bark beetles have really had their way with these vars.
Looked it up and seems to be this one called Black backed woodpecker, although to me it looked a solid grey: I've never seen one like this before.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bla ... dpecker/id

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This Pileated Woodpecker was finding all kinds of goodies in the dead water oak limb.

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Sometimes, you want some turf instead of the surf.

This Great Egret decided it wanted a green anole for lunch and by golly it got one. I was making tuna salad and all this happened just a few feet outside the kitchen window.

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What kind of ducks are these?

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Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. They weren’t around here or the Houston area 50 years ago, but have evidently spread north from Mexico. Hundreds of these tree ducks fly over my house every evening at certain times of the year, all going the same direction, must be a roost somewhere.

They nest in tree cavities and have nested in the trees around my area and lot.

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