Driving to Port Aransas early this week just before sunrise, I stopped at my usual birding area, and to my surprise, there were NO birds seen on the lake! Usually it's busy with all kinds of birds at this hour. It was eerily quiet out there on the water. Perhaps, I'm thinking, that the new boardwalk being built on one side of the lake has something to do with the lack of bird population...just a guess. I stopped and searched through my camera lens [I use it as a scope with the zoom lens] and spotted one lone brown, juvenile, pelican in search of its breakfast and an egret in the construction zone. After a while when nothing showed up for me with feathers, I continued to walk the boardwalk, climbed the observation tower and then dropped down and walked the path on the backside thru the Texas Silverleaf Sunflowers...
Sun -- flower -- sunflower!!
