rio grande valley

The patch. All birders know what a patch is, and I’m going to do all of us a favor and…

I love the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. I love birding the area and I love the people–it’s a fantastic…

If I have learned anything from living in the northern half of the United States is that in order to…

We birders birders on the eastern half of the continent are quite familiar with the ubiquitous Northern Parula, whose buzzy…

We birders north of Mexico used to have a parrot to call our own, a sun-faced, spike tailed jewel called…

On the first day of the Great Texas Birding Classic, the Swarovski Roadside Hawks racked up over 180 species on the…

I am so excited about the announcement of Ted C. MacRae‘s new beetle-based blog carnival,  An Inordinate Fondness that I delved into…

I never got around to finishing up my Rio Grande Valley trip report, which is a crime because this last…

You might think that after everything I’ve already written about my remarkable Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival 2008 experience that…

Did you know that Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park is considered the crown jewel of Rio Grande Valley parks?  That’s…