Month: March 2017

  • Estero Llano State Park, in Photos

    *not pictured:  the Common Pauraque that we only observed from the ranger’s scope, nor the Golden Fronted Woodpeckers that were often seen, some even from just outside our hotel, and many others

  • Bentsen – Rio Grande Valley State Park: Dude, Chill

    Bentsen – Rio Grande Valley State Park: Dude, Chill

    It’s a crisp Saturday morning in the Rio Grande Valley.  The air has that just-after-a-rain feeling, when the clouds had finally burst and released the humidity and all the plants look freshly washed.  A cool, refreshing breeze is blowing over us, assisted by the forward momentum of the electric tram. We are in Bentsen-Rio Grande…