Sunday, January 27th— HolidayInn Express, Port Aransas, TX We left about 10:30 after eating the hotel-provided breakfast and checking our e-mails. Back to making waffles shaped like the state of Texas. At the Texas Welcome Center, we were able to pick up a series of glossy, slick, beautifully-made and illustrated maps of the "Great Texas Birding Trails." We were particularly interested in the coastal areas and along the Rio Grande Valley. These maps give the locations in sets of loops you can take of various sanctuaries, wetlands, parks, trails, ponds, etc. where specific birds may be found. We used these maps with various success on this trip. Birds being birds, they don't cooperate and show up at these places like Disney's trained mechanical animals. They also hang out at different locations depending upon the time of
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