April 2018

Arriving in South Texas early, I stopped in San Antonio for a few days of sightseeing and Tex-Mex food, before my wildlife adventure in the lower Rio Grande Valley. This narrative is strictly devoted to birds, however difficult it was to select captivating photos out of over 900 captured digitally. My plan to focus on Life birds seen on the tour took a detour; there were too many favorites I couldn’t resist including. In another post the subject will center on all the unusual wildlife from the trip, many of which I had never seen before. 

The small group, Roberta and her husband Bill, picked me up at the hotel I was staying at in Mc Allen Sunday morning and we hit the ground running. Texas has over 600 species of ...