These are Inca Dove, one of our two small doves.
Like Ground-Dove they have rufous in wings visible in flight
above and underwing below. Inca has bold white sides to a long tail.
Ground-Dove has a short stubby tail with small white corners.
The wings click loudly like a grasshopper when flushed.
Inca Dove appears scaled with a dark margin to each feather.
(Common) Ground-Dove is plain with big black spots on wings.
Inca is often around human habitation where feed put out.
Ground-Dove does not fall for that and is a country dove.
Inca range (into Mexico) does not overlap anything Inca.
I think they used to be called Mexican Dove in some circles.

This is a Meadowlark, I think an Eastern.
They are fairly hard to tell apart, except
when vocalizing. Often called Fieldlark locally.

The Cypress are around peak color now and the river looks great.
This pic from a prior year.

This is Blue-eyed Grass, which is actually a tiny Iris.

Here is a phone photo Morris Killough got of the
American Woodcock at his office on Nov. 13. Always
a great find here. This is cropped of course. I
have 5 records in 19 years here. They are a forest
woodland shorebird (sandpiper), not seen at the shore.

Lost Maples, Dec. 2, 2018. I just saw a pic on a park page
in which these exact Maples looked like this, right now.
The park is generally booked weekends all this month.

A current photo of the tub pond. In case you were
wondering how big of a marsh you needed to bring in
a Common Yellowthroat. This is 50 gallons. There is
a lily and some other aquatic veg besides the cattails
and Gambusia (mosquitofish) of course.

This is a Sphinx moth I found dead. Kathy took the pix.
No ID yet but I see these regularly here. It is a smaller
type near a couple inches long with maybe 3" wingspan.
So do you think you would spot that on the tree?

Underside. Note the hindwing color barely shows on the
underside (ventrally), but on dorsal (upperside) is a
nice saturated burnt orange color.

This appears to be a pair of copulating Red Bat.
This was above Vanderpool, Oct. 12.

Same pair as above.

This is a Monarch in flight, which would have been
really neat if I had goten the tips of the wings.

There are fair numbers of these moths on the flowers currently.
I think Hypocala andromena - Andromena Moth aka False Underwing.

There are also some of these on the flowers, which I think
are one of the Lichen Moths, c.f. Lycomorpha pholus. The
white flowers blew out the sensor and over-exposed it horribly.

These are out on the flowers now too, the Ailanthus Webworm moth.
Again, the sensor gets blown out by white and overexposes. (Atteva punctella)

This is a Texas Wasp Moth (Horana panthalon texana),
a moth that mimics a wasp. A few of these about now too.

Here is a docushot Kathy got of the White Peacock on Sept. 26.
Mavica floppy disk pic so not overwhelming of detail, but great docs.

A small wavelet of Vesta Crescent seems to be showing up.
The abundant one right now is Snout, again, but I am seeing
small numbers of Vesta building on the Frog-fruit now. They are
the most common crescent here, but often as immigrants from
elsewhere, such as the Snouts are.

This Northern Mockingbird has molted its tail and a new
one is just growing in. Giving the usually long-tailed
bird a fairly funny bob-tailed look.

This is a juvenile Vermilion Flycatcher. At first they
are streaked on breast and a yellowish-salmon rearward below.
Not sure any of this plumage on site, so filling in holes.
Apologies if I put this up somewhere and forgot it.

Male Lesser (Black-backed) Goldfinch on Musk Thistle.
Musk is the Euro non-native introduced invasive Thistle here.
I would like the pic a whole lot more if it were on a native.

We saw 4 Yellow Warbler at once in the bath this week.

This is a fall female or immature Orchard Oriole in our birdbath.
There were three of these at once in the bath this week, and
as soon as they left 2 males dropped in to it.

This is an underexposed docushot of the immature Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at Utopia Park Aug. 12. It continues today the 19th. At least two are there now. The are white-spotted on brown above, and brown-streaked on dirty white below. Those are Cypress leaves on the water surface, as in November, usually.

This is a first spring male Summer Tanager. They are pied with the mustard olive of an immature or female, the males acquiring red over their first summer. This was April 17, 2018, early in spring.

Black-and-white Warbler, female or immature.
This is what I would be doing if there was a river.

Shining Flea-Beetle eating hole in American Germander.

Shining Flea-Beetle still eating holes in American Germander.

Another type of Flea-Beetle with nice polka-dots.

Here is a little something for all those ID whiz superstars. This is a nightjar. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify it. Two species had just called from the immediate adjacent vicinity. This bird landed on the wire, there was just a crack of light left, I had to gas the ISO up to 3200, got one shot and it split. Only had a bare-eyed view, mostly was looking at back of camera. So you know what I did at the time, the two species that had just called were N. Paraque and Chuck-will's-widow. It was Sept. 5, 2019. I think it can be ID'd based on shape and structure. Interesting to me, I had only prior seen Nighthawks (both species) sit on wires, but, I guess why not, nice perch. I will not be posting a quick answer, or best guess, leaving it up as a mystery bird for a bit.

In case you wonder what the new shoals of small surface fish
are at the park. This is the native Sailfin Molly found in
south Texas. Male has blue in tail and orange-yellow head,
both of which can get quite bright in breeding season. The two
upper fish in rear are females. These are the Leona River
individuals, which I kept and bred years ago.

Hutton's Vireo Oct. 6, 2019.

This is a Coot, taken at Utopia Park March 24, 2018.

Kathy took this pic of a pair of mating moths.

Dotted Roadside-Skipper, June 28, 2009.

One of the Ghost Moths methinks.

Male Scott's Oriole

Tropical Checkered-Skipper, taken July 16, 2019.

This is the Cerambycid (Longhorn) Beetle from a
couple weeks ago (May 21). Elytrimitatrix undata is
what it looks like to me. Based on Mike Quinn's
most excellent Cerambycids of Texas webpage.

This is a Couch's Kingbird from a few
winters ago. The pair that we first saw in late
April came through our yard again this week.
I would say nest-site prospecting in the valley.
They nested at very SW corner of town in 2006.

This is the Little Blue Heron that was at the park for several days.
Kathy chisled these pixels onto a floppy disk with the Mavica.

Red-eared or Pond Slider are probably the most used names for this turtle. Texas River Cooter is the other regular type found locally. It is less green without yellow marbling on carapace (top half of shell) and much darker, almost blackish, with only a little yellow on head. It is also not as domed of carapace, so a much flatter shape, better for speeding in the river.

This is a Catbird at our birdbath 2 falls ago. The one at bath today looked the same.  ;)  In early May watch Mulberries for them, and thrushes, grosbeaks and orioles.

A male Painted Bunting. You should be seeing some now. There has been a great wave of them moving through. We had 16 adult males at once (!) in the past week, likely more were around yard we missed in the moment count. They love white millet, and-or a birdbath, but keep it clean if you do that. (the 16 at once count was 3rd week of April)

This is an Underwing (Catocala sps.) moth of some flavor.
Apologies if this is up and you have seen it before.
There are a bunch of types, I think a half-dozen or so,
at least, here. The hindwing on several types is bright red,
orange, or pink, but the most common one is brown.
They are all flavors of incredible camo above. In flight
the hindwing is stunning if a colored type, and the wingspan
is 2.5" so it is a good sized moth.

This is a Solitary Sandpiper a couple springs ago.
At the small south pondlet on S. Little Creek Rd.
Just one, alone, solitary, as they usually are.
One flew over the house calling April 3 this week.
Only life bird I got from horseback (1973, Big Pine, CA).