Christmas Day 2004 was unusual along the upper Texas coastline due to the freezing temperatures and several inches of snow coating the ground.  Also unusual were some lingering birds, not usually found at this time of year.   The first two photos are of a juvenile Swainson's Hawk seen that along the beach in Jefferson County that day; the bottom is of a male Prairie Warbler that was apparently wintering at Sabine Woods for the second consecutive winter.