I had the opportunity to visit with friends in Texas. The journey started in Fort Worth Texas, where Elaine lives. It was pretty nice to meet her family and to see many of her favourite birding spots.
Elaine drove us to Becky's place in the Davey Crockett National forest. Rosa & Emma, friends whom I corresponded with, but never met drove to Becky's and we spent a few hours visiting and bird watching.
Afterwards, Becky gave us a wonderful tour of her area. Soon after, we 3 drove down to Corpus Christi Texas to meet another birding friend, Linda. It was awfully nice to finally 'see' Linda's backyard & especially her pond. I remember being fascinated by the migrants that stopped at the side of her pond for a drink.
Texas was having unusually cool, rainy weather so Linda gave us a 'car tour' of the area. It was fascinating to see the Whooping Cranes in a nearby field. We also went to a little town called Beesville. There we met her friend Jimmy and also saw a lifer at an Amish farm. The Northern Wheatear was way off course! It normally lives year round in Alaska but ended up in Texas in the fall of 2009.
The four of us piled into Linda's SUV and headed for the Rio Grande Valley. We had a chance to meet up with Barbara & Dave, our neighbours at Dagobah.
What an exciting time we had! I was introduced to several state parks and saw a lot of 'lifers' ...
Each album will be labelled according to the places we visited.
