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Port Aransas

 This new RV Park has people in it. And it’s nice. But there aren’t many people out back where we are. Got to visit Paradise Pond and the Birding Center today.  Picked up bird number 400, the Philadelphia vireo.  We made it to 400 species for the year.  Guess we’re done. Then we got 401, willow flycatcher, and 402, yellow-bellied flycatcher. We’re done.  Unless… Our all-time record for species in a year is 407 in 2012.  It’s only September.  I wonder… 
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Texas RV Supply to Port Aransas

  New transmission pump installed in the Chrysler, we head south. 2016 San Antonio Map A new RV Park in Port Aransas to try; coincidentally named Port A RV Park.  (It’s so new, it doesn’t even show up as RV sites yet on the google earth map.)  It’s right next door to the South Entrance to Charlie’s Pasture.It’s an excellent trail.  You can zoom in on it and follow it on the map.  It’s mostly boardwalks across the shallows. With a birding tower halfway out.   Made it just in time for an evening walk. 
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A day in the life

 Of a red-tailed hawk. Just circling. Looking badass. Until he gets discovered by a pair of kestrels. He gets dive-bombed by them.   Until he gets away far away enough from their nest. Only to get discovered by a coopers hawk that doesn’t want him in the neighborhood either.          Until only the cooper’s hawk remains. Some days, it’s just not easy being badass.