Welcome Back for the Winter

Quite a few bird species spend the summer elsewhere, but return to Bexar and surrounding counties for the winter. These migratory birds are now making their way back.

While the Neotropic Cormorants are one of the year round residents, their cousins, the Double-crested Cormorants, spend the summer much farther to the north and make their way back south in the fall to nest in our area during the winter. They began arriving over a month ago and are getting settled in for the winter:

This set of photographs was taken along the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River near the Roosevelt Park Trailhead on Thursday, October 31, 2013.