Friday, February 24, 2012
Today's photos:
This was another one of those days when I had planned on walking at McAllister Park, but circumstances changed and I ended up at the San Antonio River. However, I definitely wasn't disappointed.
In addition to the usual great egret, great blue heron, cormorants, mockingbirds, sparrows and mallards, there was a fox squirrel, numerous green-winged teal, what appears to be a dark-eyed junco and an orange variant of a house finch. Beyond that, once again I'll let the photos tell their own story.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
I have so many sets of photos from the past week and a half that I haven't published yet, the biggest challenge for today was deciding which set to choose. I finally decided to use this set from my walk on Friday, February 3 at Crescent Bend Nature Park primarily because it was a misty, drizzly day that gives these images a softness that is something of a change of pace from the San Antonio River photos.
There was a small flock of Green-winged Teal on the creek that afternoon. They were very skittish; much more so than any of the ducks I have photographed on Salado Creek or the San Antonio River. Whenever I tried to approach closer to get better photos they would fly several hundred feet further away:
