Great Egret chicks rough-housing in the nest after a rain storm, all wings, bills, and damp feathers in the rookery canopy. 🪶

📍 Houston Audubon Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island, TX
📸 Canon EOS R50 + RF100-400mm + RF1.4x

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A Tricolored Heron launches low over the green water, wings spread and breeding colors showing in the face and plumes. 🪶

📍 Houston Audubon Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island, TX
📸 Canon EOS R50 + RF100-400mm + RF1.4x

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A Cattle Egret in breeding color peers through layers of green at Smith Oaks Rookery. That orange bill and golden crest are hard to miss. 🪶

📍 Houston Audubon Smith Oaks Rookery, High Island, TX
📸 Canon EOS R50 + RF100-400mm + RF1.4x

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A Snowy Egret works the shallows, bill skimming the water while those yellow feet stir up breakfast. 🪶

📍 Archbishop Fiorenza Park, Houston, TX
📸 Canon EOS R50 + RF100-400mm + RF1.4x

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Great-tailed Grackles can make almost anything into a lookout post. 🪶 This one picked a rounded tank on the deck, with Galveston Bay behind it.

📍 Galveston, TX
📸 Canon EOS R50 + RF100-400mm + 1.4x

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Snowy Egret chicks don’t wait quietly when food might be coming. 🪶 This nest scene at Smith Oaks shows the begging, movement, and watchful adult that make rookery season so active.

📍 Houston Audubon Smith Oaks Sanctuary, High Island, TX
🗓️ May 10, 2026 | 🕒 9:24 AM
📸 Canon EOS R50 + RF 100-400 + 1.4x
⚙️ 560mm

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Osprey overhead with barred wings catching the afternoon light 🪶

📍 Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza Park, Houston, TX
📸 Canon EOS R7 + RF 200-800mm

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Snowy Egret working the pier edge, yellow feet braced while it probes the water for a meal. 🪶

📍 Archbishop Fiorenza Park, Houston, TX
📸 Canon R50 + RF 100-400 + 1.4x

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Common Raven in Fredericksburg, Texas

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A northern shoveler in Port Aransas, Texas.

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