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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Rain
raining when we left Texas and it has rained most of the way home.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
New Orleans
see great. We did see a lot of damage on the East side. No shots fired.
Louisiana Visitor Center
is the nations largest swamp, covering nearly 1 million acres. Lisa would
not ride the turtle, so we took a picture beside of him.
This was an awesome visitors center, located off the 18 mile Basin Bridge.
They even had a talking turtle and raccoon. How cool is that?
crawfish cocktail
Lisa looks like O, she will not even look at them.
Departing
at Sabine Woods. We left at 10:40am headed for NC. It is raining so that
makes it a little easier to leave.
Breakfast
Got an email from Doug, he is already back in Canada!
A bit of birding at The Willows and Sabine Woods and it all comes to a
close.
Put the candle in the window, I'm coming home.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Sabine Woods
and warblers.
We found 13 species of warblers after 5pm. How cool is that?
People were stacked 5 deep at the dripper watching the birds.
Unfortunately sometime tomorrow we will have to start heading home...
Sea Rim
We had an awesome day today.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
pepe's feet
flats.
We were out for about an hour and we both got too much sun.
Great birds at Bolivar flats including long bulled curlew, american
avocets, tons of plovers and sandpipers. No frigatebirds though... :-)
We talked to some guys fishing at Bolivar today in the inland waterway.
They were using 20lb class tackle which I thought to be big. They said
they catch catfish and "bull reds" aka redfish aka red drum. How wierd is
that? Catfish and drum at the same spot.
packed
everywhere, too many people because with people come bozos.
We did see quite a few birds after dinner though. The rookery is full.
All the rookery species have chicks now including roseate spoonbills.
Current
We are at Smith Oaks at High Island, TX.
Lisa is making dinner then we will go out birding here.
There is a Bigfoot TC here as well.
I might should have put on sunscreen out on the flats today. Me arms are
looking a little red.
And now the rest of the story
(VFD).
Think about it. The Firehouse Grill burned and was next too the fire
depqartment!
Special, you won't see this
fire! This was in Gilcrest, TX inbetween Bolivar and High Island.
Midday
Went to Bolivar Flats, lots of shore birds, teaming with peeps. Great looks
at reddish egrets. Headed to Rollover Pass.
Mornin
Flats.
We missed a couple roads and ended up on the street level of Houston which
was a barrel of monkeys. We finally got turned around and back on the big
roads.
Minor run in with a fruitcake old dude who thought he needed to be in front
of us on the ferry. But, then a frigatebird flew over and made it all
better. Did you catch that? A magnificent frigatebird! How cool is that?
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
In search of white collared seedeater
Pizza Hut was too much so we are eating there and then will try again. If
no luck we'll go to San Ignacio.
El Rio RV Park
search of the white-collared seedeater.
Up
We are up an getting ready. Slept great with the A/C here last night.
That was only the fourth time we've used hookups and twice were here at
Falcon Dam State Park.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
camp spot
Full hookups here including power! The A/C is working and it feels good.
salenino
We did see a couple coming to America. Sucessfully I might add.
Midday update
We are headed to Roma. Doug, that we met last night, joined us on our bike
ride this morning and asked if he could follow along today. We have crossed
paths with him several times over the past week at different birding
locations. Doug is here from Canada on a birding trip.
Camp
Camped at Bentsen.
Met a couple of interesting people tonight while looking for owls. We just
got in.
Also met a Border Patrol guy. He was very nice.
Only heard eastern screech owl, saw common nighthawk, and heard common
paraque. A three nightjar day! Got a chuck wills widow earlier. Even a
perched photo! How cool is that?
Monday, April 21, 2008
Bensen State Park
We are at Bensen State Park making dinner. It is very hot outside so we
are planning to go in in a little while.
Santa Ana was a little slow but we did see the groove billed anis and black
crested titmouse plus a bonus kentucky warbler!
Did I mention it was hot?
Allen Williams Santuary is Pharr
habitat.
We met him after a little while. 40s dude, clean cut pretty boy. Very
nice guy.
Also found out Bentam Basham had been there the night before...
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Another meeting
Tonight while we were watching the green parakeets I noticed a car that
went by a couple times. It came back and parked about ten spots down at a
strip mall we were parked in.
A young guy and girl jumped out and started looking at the parakeets too.
After a few minutes he came over and asked if I spoke spanish. My spanish
is non-existent so he communicated in English. We communicated semi ok.
He called his girlfriend over who spoke very good English to translate.
Robert and Ingrid were from Montery Mexico where he worked in a bird
santuary.
They didn't know where NC was so we showed them on a map. They couldn't
believe we drove this far to look at birds
.
It was pretty neat chatting with them.
police thing
only other time we've seen such was by the border patrol.
Green Parakeets in Mcallen
We positioned ourselves on 10th Street inbetween Dove and Violet streets,
about a half mile stretch. It looked like a huge area to look for
parakeets. After about 10 minutes the birds were everywhere by the
hundreds. We estimate 2000 by the time we left.
chiggers
This was at Edinburg Wetlands in Edinburg, TX.
spread
stuff, and tortillas. Then they brought lunch!
guess what we found...
We almost got more than we bargained for here. They don't speak english...
Lisa trying to order sweet tea was priceless.
Rio Grande
Today begins our birding along the Rio Grande river. We'll be on the river
for about 3 days.
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