[rustbucket]

Another colorful bird from South and Southeast Texas is the purple gallinule. This one is from Brazos Bend State Park near Houston. Taken with a 500 mm lens.

[sweetliberty]

Oh my! I guess not everything that crosses the southern border is bad.

[MamaTexan]

That's amazing..from the looks of it, a gallinule is a ground type bird, is it not?

I grew up around Houston, but being an ignorant kid at the time, I only paid attention to the more 'obvious' birds.

Now I wonder how much I missed!

LOL!