I wasn’t too excited about the photographs I found on my laptop for the day after the big hike, but then when I checked my phone I remembered why there were so few. If my memory serves me correctly, we woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of hail hitting the roof and then when we set out for a short local trek before taking vehicles to other trails, finding hail piled up almost a foot high on the gravel road.
So it looks like it was a cloudy, iffy day weather-wise, and eventually we had hail again. Only this time we were safe inside the vehicles.
The video and these images are from the cell phone. A dramatic landscape enhanced by weather.
Two birds willingly posed within range that day: the Audubon’s Yellow-Rumped Warbler at the top of the page and this lovely Say’s Phoebe.
But also ubiquitous on the entire trip were Bell’s Vireos. We didn’t always see them but we definitely heard them every day.
More of the Say’s Phoebe 
Dark, cloudy and distant pictures of two hummingbirds (Lucifer on the upper left and middle and Broad-Tailed below, right) and a Varied Bunting in between them.
We visited this amazing fossil discovery exhibit which is in Big Bend National Park.
Some flora which I might be able to identify if I could just find the laminated checklist of Big Bend wildflowers I purchased at the Visitors Center. Looking through even more pictures on the internet makes it tempting to revisit this area some day. I want to come back as a plant fanatic.
More views of the Audubon’s Warbler
There are four more days of photographs from the Southwest Texas trip to decipher. Then it’s onward to rejuvenate or replace the travel laptop before I take it on another adventure coming up next month!
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Good use of the phone.
🙂 Yes, thanks – I couldn’t have done it without the phone. My days of carrying two cameras are over.
It looks like an interesting location. You managed to get some artistic photos despite the weather conditions. 🙂
Thanks, H.J. It’s just such an astounding landscape. And I have always been a big fan of wide, open spaces. 🙂
Wow!
Hi, MaryLee! Thanks. I’m just thankful there are still places like this left. 🙂
Gosh, forget the birds, those are some gorgeous photos of the mountain landscape. Also, that sounds like some mean hail!
The hail was really something. Perhaps even more so when out in the middle of “nowhere” which is everywhere. But everywhere was gorgeous. I have always adored desert landscapes.