UTSW Rookery

Spring 2016 I started visiting the bird rookery at UTSW Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. It was my first time to see a rookery. In this gallery I am attempting to document what takes place in a rookery for each species of aquatic bird that comes here. It has been an amazing journey that I am sharing here. There are 8 species that nest here and I will divide them by species in the order that they show up.

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Young Anhingas Leaving The Nest

On this day, when I made my second circle of the rookery, I found that two of the 3 anhinga babies had become branchers, they had left the nest to perch and climb on nearby branches. The third baby was making commentary from the nest.
Anhinga Branchers (Anhinga anhinga)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery

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