Aquatic Birds

Still Here

I'm happy the shelduck is sticking around. It has been seen flying short distances and has no obvious wounds or illness so apparently it just likes it here, no matter how it got here. But then that is Texas, may not have been born here but ya got here as quick as you could.
Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)

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