Category: South Texas Birding Adventure
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Baa Baa Sheepshead, Have you any birds?
Post #6 of The Great Texas Birding Adventure Previous Post #5 South Padre Island – Migratory Bird Mecca Smallest of the South Padre Island (SPI) Big Three birding spots, the Valley Land Fund Lots on Sheepshead Dr. seems to have the biggest concentration of birds. The fact that the dense…
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What a Dump!
Post #3 of The Great South Texas Birding Adventure Previous Post #2 Why Birders Flock to the Rio Grande Valley – Lists and Photographs The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Birds of the World says it best. Tamaulipas Crow is generally found below 300 m, where it inhabits scrubby farmland and…
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Why Birders Flock to the Lower Rio Grande Valley – Lists and Photographs
Post #2 of The Great South Texas Birding Adventure SeriesLink to Post #1 The Great South Texas Birding Adventure Begins Why would the three amigos from The Great South Texas Birding Adventure choose South Texas as their destination for this grand escapade? Two things, Lists and Photographs! Astronomical Growth of…
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The Great South Texas Birding Adventure Begins
On a very early Monday morning on April 26, 2021, 3 intrepid birders from California’s Central Valley set out to travel to the Lower Rio Grande Valley in search of BIRDS. By the time we returned 9 days later, a total of 206 life Texas birds would be checked off…
Reflections of the Natural World 