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Birds
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Texas Aquiarium
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Mammals
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Signs
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Sunset
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Itinerary
Solar eclipse
Totality
Solar crescent
Homage to the eclipse
Big filter
Tom, Tom, Sheri, Sara, and Bob
KerrvilleTexas 2024
April 8, 2024
Canon 7Dmark2
Birds
Great blue heron
When herons branch out
Tricolor heron with fish
Rosette spoonbills
Female grackle
Laughing gull
Gull
Jewelry and black nail polish
Turning stones
Whistling Duxie
Redhead
Vultural revolution
Willet
Flycatcher
Robin
Without Abraham and John
Purple martin (Progne subis)
Family: Hirundinidae (swallows and martins)
San Antonio Botanical Garden
Texas 2024
April 9, 2024
Canon R5
Sparrow engineer
Mocking
Mocking with stick
The clergy goes female
Go Stanford
Inca dove
Osprey
Grebe
Yellow legs
Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory
Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon R5
We all scream
American flamingo
Seahorse
Butterflies and moths
I herd it through the pipevine
Titan
Woolly gray moth (Lycia ypsilon)
Family: Geometridae (geometer or looper moths)
Hornsby Bend
Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon 7Dmark2
Hornsby Bend
Austin, Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon R5
Hackberry emperor (Asterocampa celtis)
Family: Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies)
Hornsby Bend Water treatment plant
Austin, Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon 7D Mark II
Hackberry emperor
Hairstreak on mustard
Gray hairstreak (Strymon melinus)
Family: Lycaenidae (gossamer-winged butterflies, hairstreaks)
Hornsby Bend
Austin, Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon 7D Mark II
Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory
Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon 7D Mark II
Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory
Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon 7D Mark II
Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory
Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon 7D Mark II
On the road to San Antonio
Texas 2024
April 9, 2024
Canon 7D Mark II
Small snail
Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory
Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon 7D Mark II
Flora
When flowers aspire to be butterflies
Hornsby Bend
Austin, Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Canon 7D Mark II
Aransas Nationsal Wildlife Refuge
Texas 2024
April 5, 2024
Canon R5
Phacelia congesta Blue Curls
On the road from San Antonio
Texas 2024
April 4, 2024
Canon R5
Along the highway near San Antonio
Texas 2024
April 4, 2024
Canon R5
Along the highway near San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas 2024
April 9, 2024
Canon R5
San Antonio Botanical Garden
Texas 2024
April 9, 2024
Canon R5
Rows of corn
Neara Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
Texas 2024
April 5, 2024
Canon R5
Rat in the grass
First eye blind
Goats
Texas 2024
April 5, 2024
Canon R5
San Antonio Botanical Garden
Texas 2024
April 9, 2024
Canon R5
Alligator on the bank
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
Texas 2024
April 5, 2024
Canon R5
Texas Aquarium
Bottlenose dolphin
Texas Aquarium
Texas 2024
April 4, 2024
Canon R5
Canon 7Dmark2
River otter
Texas Aquarium
Texas 2024
April 4, 2024
Canon R5
Canon 7Dmark2
Texas Aquarium
Texas 2024
April 4, 2024
Canon R5
Fulton Mansion
Lone star waffle
Fish mailbox
Signs
Live happy
Salt Flat Gallery
With owner Diane Loyd
Rockport, Texas 2024
April 6, 2024
Pixel 8 Pro
Gator attack
Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center
Corpus Cristi, Texas 2024
April 6, 2024
Pixel 8 Pro
Aransas NWR
Bob in big chair
Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory
Texas 2024
April 10, 2024
Pixel 8 Pro
Bob in Austin airport
Half-gas state
Sunset
Sunset at the pier
Pier without peer
Texas 2024
April 5, 2024
Canon 7Dmark2
Texas itinerary - April 4-10, 2024
April 4, 2024 - SFO to San Antonio (SAN) to Rockport
- Wendy took me to SFO
- United SFO to San Antonio
- Pick up car rental
- Stop at rest stop to take photos of flowers along the highway
- Drive to Rockport
- Stay at Quality Inn Rockport on Aransas Bay
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April 5, 2024 - Rockport
- Breakfast at hotel
- Aransas National Wildlife Refuge - mosquitoes were quite bad
- Get gas
- Goose Island
- Rockport sunset
- Stay at Quality Inn Rockport on Aransas Bay
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April 6, 2024 - Rockport to Corpus Christi
- Breakfast at hotel
- Nesting herons
- Salt Flats Gallery - talk with owner Diane Loyd
- Car ferry crossing
- Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center
- Drive to Corpus Cristi area around the USS Lexington
- Stay at Days Inn Corpus Christi Beach
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April 7, 2024 - Corpus Christi to Kerrville
- Breakfast at hotel
- Texas Aquarium
- Corpus Christi State Park
- Dinner at Sara and Tom's with Sheri and Tom
- Stay in Kerrville with Sara and Tom
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April 8, 2024 - Kerrville, Texas
- Breakfast at Sara and Tom's
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- Eclipse in Sara and Tom's backyard
- Late Lunch/early dinner
- Kerrville River Walk
- Stay in Kerrville with Sara and Tom
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April 9, 2024 - Kerrville to San Antonio
- Breakfast at Sara and Tom's
- San Antonio Botanical Garden
- River Walk
- Dinner at the Velvet Taco with Lauren Sweet and Sean Garnsey in San Antonio
- Stay at Econo Lodge Downtown Northeast San Antonio
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April 10, 2024 - San Antonio to Austin to SFO
- Breakfast at hotel
- Drive to Austin
- Hornsby Bend Water Treatment Plant
- Drop off car
- United airlines Austin to SFO
- Flew home a day early
Acknowledgments
- Great thanks to Sara and Tom for graciously hosting me in Kerrville during the eclipse days
- Thanks to eclipse mates Sheri and Tom Hawes
- Thanks to John Harshman and Ted Floyd for providing Texas birding advice
- Thanks to Lauren Sweet and Sean Garnsey for meeting me for dinner in San Antonio and taking me around the Pearl district
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Created: April 11, 2024 (from texas2022.html)
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