4-23-21
I spent the morning birding Boy Scout Woods and it was pretty slow going. The mosquitos outnumbered the birds by around a million to one. I was wearing shorts because I left my clothes bag lying on the bedroom floor (Mim is bringing with her today). I was lucky because the Houston Audubon Society has a little booth at the woods and they sell the juice the mosquitoes hate. Best eight dollars I ever spent.
After I spayed myself down, I took another walk around the woods and this time I was able to find a Kentucky Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Baltimore Oriole, and Magnolia Warbler. On the walk back to my home base I was blessed with good looks at several Scarlet Tanagers and Indigo Buntings.
At Smith Woods it was pretty slow going as well. By far the most exciting thing was walking up to within ten feet of a six foot American Alligator. Luckily for me he was somehow afraid that I was going to pick him up and throw him down and to avoid this fate he jumped up and scurried off into the water. Needless to say I almost had a stroke! As soon as he got in the water he went under but I found him poking his eyes up about ten minutes later and his got a photo (see below).
There was a small flock in this area so I hung around and found a Prothonotary Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Black and White Warbler, Eastern Kingbird, Orchard Oriole, and Tennessee Warbler. But the really big show was at the rookery. I'll let the photos speak for that experience.
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