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Birds of Prey
The vultures are very active around Tedderhaven right now, soaring high and zooming close, letting me take their picture, and often circling back for re-takes. There is most likely a nest up the cove a bit, and both turkey and black vultures have been hanging out at the shoreline. These are all turkey vultures.
Tedderhaven in April
We have a family of black-crested titmice in the nestbox in front of the cabin. Suzy has been monitoring; they look slightly less disturbing today than they did Monday, but I still find them a little difficult to look at. The parents are spending a lot of time going back and forth–it’s a lot of work feeding all those gaping little beaks.
A visit to Hornsby’s Bend
There’s a wastewater treatment plant just north of the Colorado River and three minutes from the cell phone waiting lot at the airport. This is a game changer for me–I already like making the airport run, and now it’s paired up with an easy visit to three big ponds with several boatloads of cool birds, if cool birds could be persuaded to get on the boats. Yesterday I saw at least two new-to-me species, and, pending ID, probably more. I’ll edit this post as soon as I figure out what I was looking at.