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@Growing Coastal Sago Palms. Cycas revoluta Native to southern Japan, but a very popular landscape cycad in Southeast Texas.
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Uncle Feist, what kind of birds are the grey ones?
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I see they're fond of blueberries!
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A rather handsome looking mallard from Clear Lake, Nassau Bay, Texas.
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Donna, zone 9, El Lago, Texas
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One of these things is not like the others ...... American Widgeon and lone Mallard
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There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask 'What if I fall?' Oh but my darling, What if you fly?
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White Ibis.
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Donna, zone 9, El Lago, Texas
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Ducks aren’t too picky I hope.
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Great Blue Heron
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The white geese with one tiny little gosling. The gosling is bending over by the curb. I wonder why there's only one? Shouldn't there be others?
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Donna, zone 9, El Lago, Texas
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A snake may have gotten them.
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25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.
You can't argue with a closed mind.
You might as well be arguing with a cat.
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.
You can't argue with a closed mind.
You might as well be arguing with a cat.
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I'm not sure what kind of geese these are. One of them seems to have a rather unique black beak.
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Donna, zone 9, El Lago, Texas
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@SpookyShoe looks like Chinese Gray, one of the domesticated knob geese of Asia.
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Flicker and a robin were pecking together today, like they were old friends.
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I see Road Runners all the time but I'll be if I can get a picture of them.
Fast little devils.
Fast little devils.
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25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.
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25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.
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I would have a lot more pictures if I wasn't afraid to startle them. Some seem happy to pose but generally they are aware of me, even if I'm in the house, and camera attention will send a lot of them scooting. Blue jays are around but very camera shy, the robins are most bold and ruling the garden along with flicker and juncoes.
I ran into a little flock of chickadees in the woods early spring/late winter and they don't seem to have any fear of me at all - perching and hopping around very handy to my face, but I didn' t have a camera on me. Ravens are here every day but I would be loathe to spook them with camera, as they really have my back, being 'watchbirds'. No intruders human or animal come near without a warning from them.
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temperate marine climate
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Ravens got my attention today, with a huge angry kerfuffle and extra flock present for the event... they flew over the house and garden before settling in over the woods to the east for some name calling.... I went out and looked but didn't see anything, I did hear jays and robins as well, so I decided it must be a predator that's bothering the birds. Then I went for a walk by the old vegetable garden and... I found the feathers of the flicker spread over the top of my compost pile. That is exactly where the robin was attacked before - but who is this predator?
I suspected a fox in the area, but you'd expect them to be more trouble for the bunnies than the birds.
And I can't figure out how a fox would manage to capture and dismember and eat the flicker leaving nothing but feathers neatly strewn on top of this pile, without even leaving a track... What do you think? Could it be some predator bird???
The compost pile is just a couple of feet tall, about 4X4 square. I couldn't even see where a fox could hide close enough to surprise a bird that was pecking on or around it. Birds would see all that when they fly in...
I suspected a fox in the area, but you'd expect them to be more trouble for the bunnies than the birds.
And I can't figure out how a fox would manage to capture and dismember and eat the flicker leaving nothing but feathers neatly strewn on top of this pile, without even leaving a track... What do you think? Could it be some predator bird???
The compost pile is just a couple of feet tall, about 4X4 square. I couldn't even see where a fox could hide close enough to surprise a bird that was pecking on or around it. Birds would see all that when they fly in...
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temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm
temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm