Just before everything combined to reschedule our Camino walk, we did a relaxed walk at Bentsen-RGV State Park.
The bird-feeder season was pretty-much over. Except for those feeders that had been stocked! We saw some pretty birds. One type we were seeing, in addition to the green jays, the red-winged blackbirds, the chachalacas, and various full-colored red cardinals, were these ones:
Near the bridge over the irrigation canal at the entrance. His color looked rather orange-ish that time.
At the water-enhanced bird blind with benches, getting a drink.
Also at that bird blind? He was eating sunflower seeds here.
These don't really look like the female cardinals. They might be. Or they might be another color variant. Or desert cardinal? the bill in the internet images of the desert cardinal seemed more sharply curved but the feathery look to the crest--sorry, those pictures came out blurry--made me think it's not a regular cardinal.
The weather was cloudy that day and it seems to have convinced the birds to keep their little caps down.
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