During the past week area birders have been reporting some interesting stuff from Delta Lake County Park about twenty miles north of Weslaco.  Nothing great but the continuing drought has dropped water levels at this irrigation water storage impoundment exposing a large mud flat.  Birds uncommon for Hidalgo County like Dunlin and Reddish Egret have been seen and wit...

With the fantastic butterfly fall/winter we've had here in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of south Texas I've not done a lot of birding lately.  But with the onset of some cooler weather, warm blooded birds are easier to find than ectothermic butterflies.  So when Ryan Rodriguez found a South American Kelp Gull and a flock of Black Scoters at Port Mansfield on a cold b...