Rockport - day II

The second day of the Rockport birding fieldtrip was did bring less luck for the photographers. In the morning the group embarked on a boat trip through a wetland area. The main goal was to shoot whooping cranes. These man size cranes are an endangered species and live in the area around Rockport. Their favorite food is blue crab, however due to the drought in the south of Texas during the last years, the blue crab population is diminished and therefore also a small number of whooping cranes can be found in the area around Rockport, this year. The whooping cranes move further away from Rockport in finding food.

Since the whooping cranes were only stamp sized on my pictures, I shot something else. Like our shadows while standing on top of the boat.


Luckily some birds did came close to the boat. Or better the captain steered the boat in the direction of the birds. Like these blue herons.


Later that day, someone decided that it was time to attract some birds by feeding them. This resulted in interesting photos. When you look closely to the beak of the sea gull you’ll see that it is red colored.


Before dinner we went to see sunset at Goose Island. Unfortunately, just before sunset, some clouds showed up and blocked the view on sunset. I could observe another interesting phenomenon though. In the photo below you see that at our viewpoint, waves were coming from two different directions. Where the waves ‘touched’, the wave height increased.