Category Archives: Brazos Bend State Park

Red Shouldered Hawk At Brazos Bend State Park

As I was walking on one of the trails I heard the unmistakable cry of a Hawk.  I always get confused between a Red Shouldered Hawk and a Red Tailed Hawk. Here’s what I found from reading my Sibley’s Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America.  The Red Shouldered Hawk has orange bars across...

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Little Blue Heron Hunting For Food

Another bird action sequence from Brazos Bend State Park. A Little Blue Heron goes hunting for food.  First the bird checks the left hand side. Nothing on the left, how about behind? Whoa!  There’s something! Damn, didn’t catch a thing.

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White Ibis Eating Crawfish

Here’s some additional pictures from Brazos Bend State Park. This was actually an accidental picture.  I was just trying to take a picture of a White Ibis.  It wasn’t until I got home and started reviewing the pictures that I noticed that this bird had caught a Crawfish. In this first picture, you can just...

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Brazos Bend: Nothing But Gators

I intended to visit Brazos Bend State Park to take some pictures of the birds and wildlife.  Little did I know the place would be full of American Alligators. I started off seeing some gators swimming through the water. The gator below seemed content to warm up while in the water. Then as I’m walking...

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Brazos Bend State Park Field Observations

Note: I’ve corrected my numerous spelling grammatical errors due to my writing this right before going to bed.  Let me know if there are more (note to self, don’t write long posts when falling asleep). I wanted to get down some of my thoughts that have been through my head over the last week regarding...

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