This is a pre scheduled post. I am on blogging hiatus for now, but I made this video to share! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did watching it!!
** There is a note below the image on how to disable autoplay with YouTube also. You may want to read my note on the 'how to' before you click on the linked image found directly below this text!!
My 3 minute Video of an American Bittern -Click on image above to take you to my YouTube Channel!! For a song background sound, turn on your speakers!!!
** Ps...if you'd like to disable YouTube's Autoplay feature [where YouTube automatically plays the next video]...do this: When YouTube opens, at the top right corner, you'll see that it's set on your browser to play the next video...click on the radio button and it will shut off that feature! And, it should remember from one time to the next, as long as you have cookies/history up to date.
"Take Me To Texas"
Take me to Texas
Two hundred years ago
Where a pride rose from the ashes of San Jacinto
It still beats in every heart
Like a battle cry
Where I was born, where I was raised, so when I die
Take me to Texas
On the open range
The Rio Grande is in my veins
It’s heaven there
And so my prayer
Is that you’ll take me anywhere in Texas
The only home I know
I’m a child of the Alamo
And the Yellow Rose
So when I go
Take me to Texas
Where my daddy worked
Where his blood and sweat and tears are still in that red dirt
Wild Palominos run
Cowboys are kings
And if I stray too far, I’ll let my Lone Star dreams
Take me to Texas
On the open range
The Rio Grande is in my veins
It’s heaven there
And so my prayer
Is that you’ll take me anywhere in Texas
The only home I know
I’m a child of the Alamo
And the Yellow Rose
So when I go
Take me to Texas
There’s something in the sky
And in your momma’s eyes
So even if you try to move away
You’ll end up on some road somewhere
With your thumb up in the air
When they ask you where you’re headed, you’ll say
Take me to Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antone
Houston, Laredo, Galveston
Or Austin, maybe Abilene
The closest thing I’ve ever seen
To Heaven’s the Gulf of Mexico
I’m a child of the Alamo
And the Yellow Rose
So when I go
Take me to Texas
....Take me to Texas
There have been two at one time, in one day, reported seen at this refuge. I was lucky enough to spot ONE. Their natural colors and nature's way of camouflage continues to astound me with this particular species. As you watch the video [recorded while the bird was in the drying reed grasses], the bird's coloring and feather pattern is near identical to the grass swaying in the breeze!!! To underwater creatures, the American Bittern's presence can literally go unnoticed until it's 'too late'! It's also said that with the Bittern's action by stretching its neck upwards [as seen in the adjacent image], their neck becomes just 'another blade of grass'...and scientists surmise in theory this too is a way of defense...the Bittern's protection against its predators.
