In the evening light.
Several hundred of these parrots live free in the Rio Grande Valley. They may have come from escaped cage birds, or they may have moved up from their natural range in northern Mexico. Nobody knows for sure, but nonetheless it’s a vibrant population that gathers each evening to roost.
Dried twigs. No leaves.
But now the Huisache tree (wee-sah-chee) is beginning to bloom.
Unleashing its fragrance to the dry desert landscape.
Just beginning to show their flowers.
The Blackhawk will come across the border into the U.S., but just a little.
It is an everyday bird in West Mexico.
But not far.
The kids (adult kids) have been here for ten days already. They left this morning. But only to go 60 miles away to South Padre Island for two weeks.
Cool.
We feel a trip or two to the island coming on…
