Windy Days in RGV

     It was a very windy weekend at Santa Ana and Alamo, TX. So the bird activity was a little strange. A Spotted Sandpiper was sitting on limbs instead of searching the shoreline for lunch.  The Anis were in the tall grasses and would stick their heads up like popcorn. The hawks were low in the trees when they weren't soaring high. Two Caracaras and a Killdeer were on the gravel path through the Pintail Lakes.  A White-tail hawk sat high in a the tree. The Teal were unaffected except on the sheltered side of the pond.

                  White-tail Kite

                                                                             American Kestrel

                                                                    Grooved-billed Ani

                                                              Caracara the  Mexican Eagle

                                                Killdeer, nest in Minnesota fields or near ponds

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Spotted Sandpiper                                                  

                                                  Teal swimming away from me into the wind.