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High Island & Galveston, Spring 2014

Repeat visits to the drip by Painted and Indigo Buntings plus Baltimore Orioles provided splashes of color in a down year for overall sightings at the blind in terms of quantity and variety. April photos from other locations in and around High Island also round out this gallery.
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  • Painted Bunting.

    Painted Bunting.

  • Baltimore Oriole.

    Baltimore Oriole.

  • Worm-eating Warbler fending off a bath challenger.

    Worm-eating Warbler fending off a bath challenger.

  • Female Orchard Oriole.

    Female Orchard Oriole.

  • Male Indigo Bunting along 5th Street, High Island.

    Male Indigo Bunting along 5th Street, High Island.

  • Painted Bunting, male.

    Painted Bunting, male.

  • Tennessee Warbler getting wet at the drip. Purple color came from a small cluster of wild flowers placed on the background log.

    Tennessee Warbler getting wet at the drip. Purple color came from a small cluster of wild flowers placed on the background log.

  • Painted Bunting at drip.

    Painted Bunting at drip.

  • Worm-eating Warbler.

    Worm-eating Warbler.

  • Chestnut-sided Warbler shot at wide open aperture (f5.6) at 1/180 second. A fellow photographer's powerful flash went off at the same instant, which greatly overexposed this photo. I was able to save the RAW image by radically dialing back the exposure.

    Chestnut-sided Warbler shot at wide open aperture (f5.6) at 1/180 second. A fellow photographer's powerful flash went off at the same instant, which greatly overexposed this photo. I was able to save the RAW image by radically dialing back the exposure.

  • Baltimore Oriole in Bottlebrush. Shade under a tree provided the dark background.

    Baltimore Oriole in Bottlebrush. Shade under a tree provided the dark background.

  • Hooded Warbler.

    Hooded Warbler.

  • Painted Bunting trying to figure out the risk of those repeated flashes.

    Painted Bunting trying to figure out the risk of those repeated flashes.

  • Female Common Yellowthroat.

    Female Common Yellowthroat.

  • Painted Bunting in sunlight.

    Painted Bunting in sunlight.

  • Indigo Bunting.

    Indigo Bunting.

  • Summer Tanager female.

    Summer Tanager female.

  • Golden-winged Warbler.

    Golden-winged Warbler.

  • Worm-eating Warbler.

    Worm-eating Warbler.

  • Indigo Bunting.

    Indigo Bunting.

  • Best consensus is a Swainson's Thrush.

    Best consensus is a Swainson's Thrush.

  • Northern Waterthrush.

    Northern Waterthrush.

  • Summer Tanager.

    Summer Tanager.

  • Long-billed Curlew on the Bolivar Peninsula.

    Long-billed Curlew on the Bolivar Peninsula.

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    Male Indigo Bunting along 5th Street, High Island.
    Painted Bunting, male.
    Tennessee Warbler getting wet at the drip. Purple color came from a small cluster of wild flowers placed on the background log.