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Today in Texas

The deer have been visiting when we leave the gates open for contractors. This one came for a lunch date.
Jenny organized us into a guerilla GOTV team. We held signs above very busy I-35 in Austin, and we got an amazing number of honks which we assume were approving. Our signs were non-partisan.
Sometimes there was a break in the traffic.
Headed back to the car. In addition to the three sisters, we also had our friend Linda Ganz. I have noticed that pretty much every third friend of Suzy’s is named Linda. IT’S NOT CONFUSING AT ALL.
The fog on the lake didn’t lift all day. It was very dramatic, and this photo doesn’t begin to do it justice. Amp up the spectacularness about eight times in your head and you’ll be close.

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Around the lake

Maggie took Jon and me on a wonderful tour of the lake. These stone towers are just past the marina where we started out.
A flock of these tern-like birds was on the hunt for lunch, swooping and diving and catching a lot of fish. I don’t know what they are yet.
I usually think of early morning as the best time to see birds, but we saw a lot of lunchtime action.
I was trying so hard to get a photo of this osprey that I didn’t notice the white bird (tbd) down below. There were three more off to the left.
Great egret
Again–I was so busy trying to get a picture of the coots that I didn’t notice the great egret right there on the shore.
Coots

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Egyptian geese

Much better photos of Egyptian geese, from our cove. A completely different look from the photos from the pontoon boat, in a previous post, where they look like . . . misshapen balloons?

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A few birds from out on the lake

Maggie, Grandma, and I spent a couple of hours pontoon-boating around the lake yesterday. The photos weren’t great, but we saw a couple of good birds.

The great egret was a little blurry but still very elegant. There is a great egret that flies back and forth in front of the house a couple of times a day but never when I’m ready with the camera.
Challenge: find the great blue heron.
American coot
A pair of Egyptian geese. These are birds that were introduced from Africa, for ornamental lakes and waterparks.
Guys working on the cabana roof