November highlights

Lake Anahuac from the boardwalk at Texas Chenier Plain Headquarters. 

Originally called Turtle Bayou, now primarily a freshwater reservoir to supply irrigation for rice fields.

 The Cyprus forest surrounding the boardwalk provides a fantasyland of gnomes and fairy houses.

 Hairy Woodpecker blinked showing a clear nictitating membrane.  

King of the Cyprus Forest

Wearing a green crown

Highlights of Shoveler Pond

Pied-billed Grebe

Common Gallinule

White Ibis

Black-bellied Whistling Duck

Great Blue Heron

Trash pickup at Frozen Point

Raft of Eared Grebe, Frozen Point

Cattle drive on FM 1985

A weekly occurrence

Immature Vermilion Flycatcher

Prescribed burn on the refuge

Rice harvest on South Pear Orchard Road

Red-winged Blackbirds

Snow Goose Migration

Cottonmouth 

Red-eared Slider 

Alligator mother with nine babies sunning in the grass

Snow Goose Blizzard

Bald Eagle

Krider's Red-tailed Hawk

American Pipit

Brown Pelican - his bill can hold more than his belly can

American Oyster Catcher

TOS Hooks Woods High Island