2007/02/04
Sad to Say Good-bye
We hitched up and headed west today — destination Falcon State Park about 60 miles from Mission. We’re looking forward to this part of the trip as we will visit many new places but it was sad to leave Oleander and all of the wonderful people we met there. As an interesting co-incidence the neighbour we canoed with on Friday (the 2nd) left for Falcon on the 3rd so we’ve arranged to go birding with them.
Falcon State Park is on the shores of Falcon Reservoir which was created when the Falcon Dam was built across the Rio Grande River. It is a very popular bird watching location, though we didn’t see a lot of birds on our walk along the nature trail.
There were some wild flowers and shrubs blooming --- I guess spring is coming to south Texas
Pyrrhuloxia --- the "desert cardinal"
Walking through the campground you saw a lot of side mirrors with plastic bags on them. The Pyrrhuloxia loves to attacked his reflection. Here he's attacking the chrome bumper of a van.
Falcon State Park is on the shores of Falcon Reservoir which was created when the Falcon Dam was built across the Rio Grande River. It is a very popular bird watching location, though we didn’t see a lot of birds on our walk along the nature trail.
There were some wild flowers and shrubs blooming --- I guess spring is coming to south Texas
Pyrrhuloxia --- the "desert cardinal"
Walking through the campground you saw a lot of side mirrors with plastic bags on them. The Pyrrhuloxia loves to attacked his reflection. Here he's attacking the chrome bumper of a van.
