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Bentsen

We’re not in Kansas anymore. We’re not in Port Aransas. We’re not even on the beach. We took a trip. We went south 150 miles. We’re at Bentsen Palms RV Park just outside Bentsen Rio-Grande State Park, Mission Texas. The birds here are even more tropical. White tipped dove. Altamira oriole. Plain chachalaca. Common pauraque. We’re going to try to get the Northern Beardless Tyrannulet. It didn’t take the blackbirds long to find our feeder.
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Our pond

The coots are resident. Other birds come and go. We’ve been getting daily visits from mottled ducks and black bellied whistling ducks. Both rare birds if you happen to live anywhere else in North America. One day a mixed gang: three northern shovelers, one female ringneck duck, one ruddy duck, and the two coots.