We have lived in our ranch house here in Katy, Texas for over twenty years now and I have never seen these birds, White Ibis, visit our yard. I did have the opportunity to be blessed with their visit this past week.
My sister, the Birder says that the ones with the brown feathers are immature and the white are the elder. They flew together and moved together; slowly piercing their slightly curved, long orange beaks into the soft soil to feed.
Staying less than five minutes, they flew away together. I tried to move so close to them to get a good shot surely, I am the reason they left so soon. This last week there have been lots of sighting of water birds up and down my street. My neighbor had a few hundred ducks in his yard last night. I love to be surrounded in a natural environment that allows these visitors. There is so much construction going on around us they must have had their natural environment destroyed and are looking for food and nesting areas in new places.
I will have to look into what the city is doing to preserve natural pockets of habitat ...
My sister, the Birder says that the ones with the brown feathers are immature and the white are the elder. They flew together and moved together; slowly piercing their slightly curved, long orange beaks into the soft soil to feed.
Staying less than five minutes, they flew away together. I tried to move so close to them to get a good shot surely, I am the reason they left so soon. This last week there have been lots of sighting of water birds up and down my street. My neighbor had a few hundred ducks in his yard last night. I love to be surrounded in a natural environment that allows these visitors. There is so much construction going on around us they must have had their natural environment destroyed and are looking for food and nesting areas in new places.
I will have to look into what the city is doing to preserve natural pockets of habitat ...
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