I told Michael after his dentist appt. we would go to Aransas Wildlife Refuge to look for Alligators...he calls them crocagators and I keep explaining to him that Texas does not have crocodiles but alligators...maybe sometime it will click but it hasn't yet...He was excited and after much walking and checking out the different lakes we found one, or rather it found us. When we walked out on to the observation deck this alligator swam directly over to us and checked us out. I think some people feed them, even though you are not supposed too, and this one was checking to see if we had any food...As soon as he saw we weren't going to feed him he swam off to check out a group of ducks....
He and or she was about 6 to 7 feet long...not to big. Michael was excited and kept telling me look at his tail Momma, Look at his tail!! Are you taking photos Momma, take more photos Momma....lol....
A wild turkey. There was a group of Turkeys in the road and when another vehicle drove by them they flew up in to the trees...
A whitetail buck laying down. The deer up by the office are pretty friendly and not to afraid of people. 
Young Wild Hogs rooting around...
A nine banded Armadillo....This is the first one Michael has ever seen and he was just staring he didn't know what to think...we watched him for about 10 minutes.
A swallow tail butterfly.
The view of the coast at Aransas Wildlife Refuge during High tide.
A old beat up Javelina...This poor old guy was pretty beat up and by himself. He was hanging around the picnic tables and I'm sure waiting for someone to feed him. A couple of years ago we saw another Javelina, that was in poor shape, in the same area and I'm wondering if this isn't the same one...lol...who wouldn't wait around for a free meal!
Michael checking out a frog that he found.
A Blue Heron. I know this photo isn't very good the Heron was just to far away for a decent shot. I even rested the camera on the observation deck so that it would be steady but I so need a telephoto lense...I just don't have the lense power to get great photos of these birds...I took 245 photos, got those down to 145 photos...I put a few on here but have more on my flickr site...you are more than welcome to go there and check out more photos of Corpus and Aransas Wildlife Refuge....
2 comments:
WOW - there are some great shots here Wen. Just so interesting. Michael is so lucky to experience all this. And the studious look on his face studying the frog is priceless
Holy wildlife batman!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE crocagators!! How cute is that!?
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