Laninga's Travel Blog

Our time in South Texas has come to an end.  On Friday, we had back to the Dallas area.  While we are looking forward to seeing friends and family, we’ll miss the friends we made in Southern Texas.  We’ll miss the food, and especially the world class birding.  We visited three of the major sites (Bentsen World Bird Refuge, Santa Anna Bird National Sanctuary, and Estero Grande Below is an album of some of the birds we saw.

Orange Crowned Warbler

Orange Crowned Warbler

Black Crested Titmouse

Black crested titmouse

Harris Hawk

Harris Hawk

Cardinal

Couch Kingbird

Mockingbird

A group of Snowy Egrets

Green Kingfisher

Yellow Crowned Night Heron

Black necked stilt

Great White Heron

Dragon fly

Lazy Duck

Pink Orchid

Pink Orchid

White orchid

Black necked stilts

Shovelers Duck

Orange fronted woodpecker