San Antonio River, Mission Reach, Roosevelt Park Trailhead
once around the Roosevelt Park loop trail
Today's photos:
The first photo is a red-tailed hawk.
The second, third and fourth photos are bluebonnet plants, the State Flower of Texas, that will soon be blooming.
The fifth photo is a red-eared slider turtle.
The sixth photo is an orange sulphur or one of its close cousins.
The seventh photo is one double-crested and two neotropic cormorants.
The eighth photo with the top of the Tower of the Americas in the background is of a hawk. It is soaring high above the river at a good distance upstream from where I was walking. I think this is the red-shouldered hawk that nests close to the Alamo St bridge.
The ninth photo is of four slider turtles squeezing onto a single rock as slider turtles are prone to do to soak up the warmth of the sun.
The tenth photo is a mealy blue sage in the process of blooming.
The eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth photos are of a gulf fritillary gathering nectar from a cultivated variety of scarlet sage.
The fourteenth and fifteenth photos are a huisache tree at the intersection of Lone Star Blvd and Mission Rd. This huisache is in full bloom.
The sixteenth photo is of an Anacua tree, more commonly known as a sandpaper tree because of the very rough undersurface of the leaves. The leaves of the anacua have actually been used as a fine grit sandpaper.
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