Country Roads...

Oftentimes I find myself taking a country road to find hawks and perhaps a chance to find an owl along the ditches and near the old abandoned buildings just off the road a short distance. Of course the direction I go takes me through farm lands and ranch lands. Mostly cotton farms and cattle ranges. I do take photos of what I see sometimes when the road is empty of farm equipment and other vehicles.

In some areas in the country around here if the rainy season remains, the land is covered in greenery.  Some years the trees are evergreen.  While in other parts, where the land is more parched with lack of rainfall, it's more what I'd consider wintry landscape.  Sometimes I see lakes in the distance...

...other times, hills to climb

Maybe some hilly pastures...

...or plenty of what Texas is known for:  Cattle Ranches

...then, in the fields, up pops a Falcon Box:

what some falcons use to breed and raise their brood.  On this particular day I spied a rare falcon [once close to extinction in America]; the Aplomado Falcon. They are slowly making a comeback. In this particular nesting box, in 2019, they raised two eyass [babies] successfully.

At times, close by with run-off from heavy rainfall, or tidal pools, I find waterfowl in abundance.

My Country Roads series will continue, tomorrow, in the next post.  More than likely, it'll be a three part series.