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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Tricolor Heron Mating View 2

The courtship didn't last long and the mating sealed the deal.
Wish they would have been out in the open but with these birds you have to take what you can get. The male is on top here.
Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
UT Southwest Medical Center Rookery

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