I went out looking for wildlife to photograph this Thanksgiving morning. I saw a couple of large birds but was not able to get a shot of either one. When I got back into my neighborhood, I saw two Killdeer standing in an intersection just around the corner from my house and took several photos of them. Here is one of them.
I spotted this Crested Caracara, also known as a Mexican Eagle, in a field in Royse City. The Crested Caracara is a tropical relative of the falcon. It favors deserts and grasslands in Texas. The Dallas area is at the northern end of it's range. Sightings of this bird in Texas are rare, according to the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center.