It clouded up as it got dark. It rained slow and steady all night. The clouds broke up at dawn. It couldn’t have been better. Travel day. Kerrville to Vanderpool. Buckhorn Resort to Lost Maples State Park, the reason for our detour on the way home. There are two birds here that refuse to come to us on Mustang Island, so we’ve come to them. Our mission: the golden cheeked warbler and the black capped vireo. They’re in this park, but they’re not just anywhere in the park. The vireo, in particular, is only being seen in one place about a two mile walk in. We took a reconnaissance walk this afternoon to check out the first part of the trail. #492, Golden Cheeked Warbler! Tomorrow, it’s back to work, but we might be able to fit in a dawn Vireo walk.
Saturday
Annie memorizes the wooly worm.
I can work from anywhere
Even in a swamp. The dish guy got us fixed first thing Monday morning. We stayed in Brazos Bend for the rest of the week because we like it there. We couldn’t stay Friday, though. The park is booked solid for the holiday weekend. Travel day today. We’re on our way back to the beach, but we have a stop to make on the way. We’re at Buckhorn Resort outside Kerrville. Back to civilization. Full hookups. The state parks have water and electric only. I think that’s about as close to dry camping as I want to get. Water usage limited by a 58 gallon gray water holding tank. We got to bird every day during our lunchtime walk. At the visitor center they had a list of eighty birds that had been seen in the last two weeks. We didn’t see that many, but in five days we saw seventy. Got more green herons than we’ve ever seen before. Got our first purple gallinule of the year.
Gators
And when walking the trails, you want to be careful where you step.
Wild Kingdom
You probably don’t want to be the smallest alligator in the gang, though.