Category: Blogs
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Pond Lookout is a Winner
South Texas Border Chapter Texas Master Naturalist Robert “Zeke” Schmidt was awarded first place in the Student Photography Contest (high school division) at the 30th annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival held November 8-12, 2023 in Harlingen.
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SPI Fall Bird Migration
While we do see some early migratory songbirds in July, it doesn’t quite feel like things are moving much until early August with the arrival of large numbers of Yellow Warblers. Their little chip notes fill the air of change. By mid-August a few more species started to show up at the SPI Birding Nature…
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Annual Meeting a Success
I would like to shout out a big THANK YOU to ALL that helped with the 2023 Texas Master Naturalist (TMN) Annual Meeting at the McAllen Convention Center, October 12-15, 2023. It could not have happened without you!
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Texas Tortoise
Like an actor parting the curtains, a Texas tortoise took the stage from behind foliage near the visitors’ center at Palo Alto Battlefield one steaming August day, its curvy forelegs pigeon-toed, its back ones, elephantine.
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Wood Thrush
This wide-eyed thrush—pot-belled, brown-spotted and robin-like in posture—traipsed among eager photographers at the South Padre Island Convention Center one October. It, like other migrants resting and refueling during their southward journey, looked weary.
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Snowy Egret
The snowy egret slipped its yolk-yellow feet, toes first, into waters of the saltmarsh and strode across, stealthy and alert, ready to strike.