Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Big Bend National Park is an amazing birding spot

We spent two nights at Big Bend NP in Texas. The first night we stayed at the Rio Grande Village and we had a nice secluded site. We rode our bikes to the Rio Grande river. We saw a pyrrhuloxia and baltimore oriole. We also saw two black-hawks in the cottonwood trees. Then we saw Mexican free tail bats and a larger bat flying around. We also saw a roadrunner and a vermilion flycatcher by our campsite.

The next day we drove up to camp at Chisos Basin in the  mountains. We were hoping to see the colima warbler but it was too early. We did see a mockingbird, vesper sparrow, and brewer's sparrow. We enjoyed our peaceful campsite.

Big Bend is an amazing park with the river, the desert and the mountains.

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