Surprise Bird!

Some birds are rare simply because there not many of them, but most are rare because of their location - they are somewhere they should not be.  For instance one of the "rare" birds at Estero Llano Park this year is a Common Grackle, the first Common Grackle sighted in the park in ten years. Well, rare or not, I ain't chasin' no damned blackbird.

So I took a picture (or six) of an Orange-crowned Warbler, a very common winter bird here.

A while later a handful of Clay-colored Thrushes showed up at the drip I was monitoring.

Then with the Clay-colors, a rare south Texas visitor - an American Robin!

Straight out of Oakwood - Gunnar