Have you heard about the bird?

Our next door neighbors were away a few days ago. Taking advantage of their absence on a hot and sunny weekend, a threesome of large herons moved into their backyard and hung out by their large inflatable pool. After consulting with our copy of Lone Pine Birds of Texas, we made an educated guess that they were juvenile little blue herons. My ornithologically-inclined relatives made the same educated guess after looking at the pictures we took.







The herons three


Around the same time, a single small bird spent a few nights sleeping in a nook in the roof above our front door. He was hard to take a good picture of since he really crammed himself into a small space, but we tried. Another consultation of Lone Pine Birds of Texas has us thinking this little guy was a Carolina wren. We wanted to take a better picture with my zoom lens, but by the time we thought of it, he had moved on to someone else's front stoop.




Our friend, wren