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Birds & Critters - click to enlarge

(Below Left) Black-Headed Grosbeak - 8/31/2006.  (Below Right) Rose Breasted Grosbeak - 5/7/2006. Imaged by Leslie Linehan

   

(Below Left) Sulphur Butterfly on Sunflowers and Red Salvia - Imaged by Leslie Linehan, 7/29/2006.

     

(Below Left) Texas Spotted Whiptail   (Below Center)  Green Anole  (Below Right) Rufous Crowned Sparrow

     

(Below) Black Capped Vireo - Camp Bullis Military Base near Sykes Hill, 6/11/2006.  Imaged by Leslie Linehan.  

      

(Below) Anna's Hummingbird - 11/12/2005

     

(Below Left & center) Fritillary Butterfly - 11/13/2005.  (Below Right) Great Horned Owl - 1/18/2006.

     

(Below Left to Right) Scrub Jay - 7/3/2005,  Bewick's Wren - Feeding nestlings. 7/2/2005, Lesser Goldfinch - 10/16/2005.

     

(Below Left to Right) Black-Chinned Hummingbird - 7/2/2005.  Ruby Throated Hummingbird, 9/19/ 2004,Blk-Crested Titmouse - 10/23/2004.

     

(Below) Greater Roadrunner - 11/27/2004.

  

(Below left) Red Breasted Nuthatch - We observed the  Red Breasted Nuthatch on the evening of 9/18/2004 and as far as we can tell this is the earliest known date for this bird to show up in the Fall migration this far south in Texas.