PIctures, Pictures, Pictures March 26, 2012

 The trip from Rockport to Galveston was only 150 miles and passed  through mud flats, then huge fields of corn (knee high already) , some other grain crops, then heavy brush again as we neared Houston. Then headed south to Galveston and over the Bay bridge and out to almost the west end of  Galveston Island where we are now in Jamaica Beach RV Park. It is a  very open park compared to the Ancient Oaks (lots of live oak trees there) where there was cover and bird life albeit mostly Great Tailed Grackles and their noisy chatter.
We will be here three days and find what we can before heading across the channel of Galveston Bay to the Bolivar Peninsula with another Ferry crossing to reach Smith Point and the Spoonbill RV Park where we will stay at least a week. So here are the pictures I have been waiting to post so you can see more of the bird, flower and scenes of the TX Coast. The internet is super fast here.

Black Skimmers

Black Skimmer nesting site at Rockport

Shirt Biled Dowitchers in roadside pond

Sanderling on Gulf Beach 

The beach at Mustang Island TX

At the same beach but into the sun the salt spray is defined

Downtown Corpus Christi (a piece of it)

Daisies and Indian Paintbrish in Tivoli

An oil platform being repaired or constructed.

A type of harebell?

Gosh, I should know these...Anyone?

LIttle Blue Heron

Unidentified roadside flower

Bouganvilla we had before but it is so pretty!

Gecko seen in Aransas Pass Wetland entrance.