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Great Texas Birding Classic: Scenes from the Upper Rio Grande Valley
By Mike • April 17, 2011 • 5 commentsOn the first day of the Great Texas Birding Classic, the Swarovski Roadside Hawks racked up over 180 species on the Upper Coast. But one day does not a Big Week make. The team decided on an ambitious strategy that placed us in the Upper Rio Grande Valley before sunrise so we drove through the night, [...]
All Good at Estero Llano Grande
By Mike • November 24, 2008 • 8 commentsYou might think that after everything I’ve already written about my remarkable Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival 2008 experience that I’d be done by now. Far from it. If you’re lucky, I’m about halfway through the tale! Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, with its anis, orioles, and fancy South Texas species, was mighty fine but [...]
