Specialty birds in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, TX - Part 3 - Clay-colored Thrush and Black-crested Titmouse
/INTRODUCTION
This is a continuation of a visual checklist of my efforts to capture images of birds that in the United States are seen primarily in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The series is merely a visual checklist. The descriptions of the birds are terse.
The Clay-colored Thrush and the Black-crested Titmouse are featured in this post.
The combination of the Olympus OM-1 camera and the 150-400 mm f/4.5 TC lens was used to capture all the images displayed in this series.
Clay-colored Thrush, Quinta Mazatlan, TX
Focal length: 500 mm
1/1000 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 8000
Handheld
The Clay-colored Thrush is brownish overall. The belly is lighter. The throat has dark streaks.
The range of the Clay-colored Thrush includes eastern Mexico and extends to northern Colombia. A northern extension that includes the most southern regions of Texas has occurred in recent years.
Black-crested Titmouse, South LLano River State Park, TX
Focal length: 320 mm
1/2500 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 6400
Handheld
The Black-crested Titmice is gray above, whitish below, has peach-colored flanks, a white forehead and a black crest.
Black-crested Titmouse, Valley Nature Center in Weslaco, TX
Focal length: 400 mm
1/400 sec @ f/4.5, ISO 6400
Handheld
The range of Black-crested Titmice includes northeast Mexico, Texas and extreme southwest Oklahoma.