More Birds at Bentsen Park

Hello, everyone.

We've been doing some walking at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, partly to see birds and partly to begin training for our return to the Camino del Norte.

The weather has been beautiful for a few days and since chilly sloppy weather is due to arrive it motivated me to put up some pictures from the pretty days.

 It's not well known that cardinals live in the Rio Grande Valley. Here we see Mrs. Cardinal and Mr. Cardinal visiting the spilled-seeds section of the feeder near the park entrance. Mr. Cardinal is in the process of molting.











This bird is one of our Valley specialties, and remarkably unwilling to pose in the clear for photographs. He is an Altamira Oriole. His lady was in the area also, but no good photos of her came of this visit. The park staff tells me that a pair of these birds nested and brought off a brood in the park last year.

On the weather front, it's time to bring in the spider plants again, as the next two nights are supposed to be in the mid 40'sF. (In the area of 7C for my metric readers.) It looks like we may be through with frosts for the year, though, so the tomato and eggplant sets are out in the garden. Here's hoping!