Birder’s Lounge

I was going to do two more articles based on my field trip to the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge, but I have decided to condense into one last article. As excited as I was about the Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, I have to say, I was most excited about the abundant and accessible Prothonotary Warblers. I have recently posted two other articles about these beautiful birds, so I won’t repeat. You can see those articles by clicking here and here.

I decided to share this entire series of photos so that you can imagine hearing it sing it’s little heart out!

The shrub/small tree that features prominently in all of the photos I captured that day is called Buttonbush, also something I have written about previously. I cannot overstate the vital role that this plant played in this particular habitat.

This is a good look at the Buttonbush blooms.

This picture gives you and idea of the Buttonbush size and role in the habitat. This is also a glimpse of a Great Egret

We were at a safe distance when my friend and I spotted this snake. I am very interested to learn more about snakes, and recently purchased a field guide to Texas Snakes that is really cool. When I’ve learned more about how to identify snakes, I’ll come back to this photo and any new photos, and write an article just on snakes.

I’ll leave you with a picture of this pretty and interesting native plant. I know that it is native because a Texas Master Naturalist told me so when we saw it at Camp El Tesoro. I just can’t remember the name! I’ll come back to this when I write about Camp El Tesoro in future articles.