A Neotropic cormorant drying its wings after a deep dive in the park pond 🪶

📍 Archbishop Fiorenza Park, Houston, TX
📸 @canonusa R50 + RF 100-400

#NeotropicCormorant #Cormorant #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #CanonR50 #NatureLovers #MastodonBirds

An adult black-crowned night-heron roosting in the coppery winter foliage. It has been a treat tracking this resident breeding pair and their juvenile over the last few weeks 🪶

📍 Archbishop Fiorenza Park, Houston, TX
📸 @canonusa R50 + RF 100-400

#BlackCrownedNightHeron #Heron #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #CanonR50 #Houston #MastodonBirds

Score one for our native wildlife! Watched this great egret catch an invasive armored catfish at the park pond, all under the watchful eyes of a nearby coot and tricolored heron 🪶

📍 Archbishop Fiorenza Park, Houston, TX
📸 @canonusa R50 + RF 100-400

#GreatEgret #Egret #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #CanonR50 #InvasiveSpecies #MastodonBirds

A quiet reminder of human presence left behind at the park. This lost red and white fishing bobber stands out starkly against the winter branches.

📍 Archbishop Fiorenza Park, Houston, TX
📸 Canon R50 + RF 100-400

#Minimalism #StillLife #FineArtPhotography #CanonR50 #Houston #MastodonPhotography

Full speed ahead! This colorful Egyptian goose fields massive power as it sprints across the park turf to launch itself into the air 🪶

📍 Archbishop Fiorenza Park, Houston, TX
📸 @canonusa R50 + RF 100-400

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An iconic desert resident! Stumbled across this greater roadrunner keeping a sharp eye on the brush lines. Did you know these unique predators are actually a ground-dwelling species of cuckoo? 🪶

📍 Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, NM
📸 Canon R50 + RF 100-400 + 1.4x

#GreaterRoadrunner #Roadrunner #WildlifePhotography #CanonR50 #NewMexico #NatureLovers #MastodonBirds

Catching this snowy egret displaying its magnificent, lace-like breeding plumes among the marsh reeds 🪶

📍 @houstonaudubon Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island, TX
📸 @canonusa R50 + RF 100-400 + 1.4x

#SnowyEgret #Egret #WildlifePhotography #CanonR50 #HighIsland #NatureLovers #MastodonBirds

Watching these long-billed dowitchers feed in sync across the shallows at the refuge is mesmerizing 🪶

📍 @bosquedelapachenwr Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, NM
📸 @canonusa R50 + RF 100-400 + 1.4x

#LongBilledDowitcher #Shorebirds #WildlifePhotography #CanonR50 #NewMexico #NatureLovers #MastodonBirds

Stumbled upon this beautiful wild horse foal out in the dry grass fields. Spotting this little one with its striking white blaze was pure joy 🐴

📍 Ruidoso, NM
📸 @canonusa R50 + RF 100-400 + 1.4x

#WildHorses #Foal #WildlifePhotography #CanonR50 #NewMexico #NatureLovers #MastodonNature