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Ilsa

(64,569 posts)
3. So beautiful! This is one of the most colorful GBH I've
Sat May 9, 2026, 06:35 PM
May 9

ever seen. Thank you for posting it.

summer_in_TX

(4,271 posts)
6. Gorgeous, Bo Zarts!
Sat May 9, 2026, 06:48 PM
May 9

We visited Caddo Lake last year and spent some time in Uncertain, Texas, took a boat tour of the lake, and learned how it was formed. Such an unusual history.

Skittles

(172,869 posts)
7. OOH I had one of those fly by me into a creek here in Texas (to snag a fish)
Sat May 9, 2026, 07:09 PM
May 9

He flew very fast and very low........I live in a metroplex and had literally never seen one before.....they are very tall! Also, EVERY BIRD IN EVERY TREE lining the creek departed en masse, VERY LOUDLY, so I figured that dude must be a threat to them

hay rick

(9,719 posts)
11. I also took a snap of a Great Blue Heron today!
Sat May 9, 2026, 08:34 PM
May 9


I went for a walk at a local seaside park and took this from 10 feet away. He seemed unperturbed by the local pedestrian traffic. Yesterday I got my first picture of an alligator at another local park but the alligator was almost totally obscured by a combination of greater distance and the natural camouflage of rippling reflections of vegetation surrounding the stream.

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