On the way back from Port Aransas we stopped at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge to see if we could get a sighting of some of the whooping cranes that winter there. The whooping crane conservation effort is somewhat of a success story so far. In 1941 there were less than 20 birds in the wild. When I moved back to Texas in 1982 there were about 70. Now I think the number that winters here is about 500.
I got to watch 2 of them feeding for about an hour when I got tired of standing in the rain.
Sorry for the poor resolution. All I had was my iphone and they were about 200 yards away.
That’s a white pelican flying past.
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