Event:
The Rio Grande Delta Audubon Chapter will hold
their monthly meeting
on Monday, August 6, 2007, 6:30 p.m. at Rio RV Park, 8801 Boca Chica
in Brownsville, Texas. A locator
map is on our web site. Rio is on the North side of Boca Chica one
mile east of FM 511.
Potluck - everyone bring a side dish with tea and coffee furnished by
the host. We do have paper and plastic. You can call Jennie at the Rio
RV Park office 831-4653 for any questions.
Our speaker
below will cover conservation efforts for our native habitat
birds in our city.
Mr.
Edward Kuprel, Brownville City Forester
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Mr.
Kuprel will present Brownsville's current Landscape Ordinance.
He will be discussing in more detail the apartments located
at Boca Chica and Central Blvd being removed. He will
present the property as it is proceeding along the required
direction adhering to the Landscape Ordinance. You
can see some of the work done to make us more environmentally
friendly and points of the Ordinance at Landscape
Ordinance.
We will all be educated in the ordinance where we can
see how it will help Brownsville become more environmentally
friendly. I had one personal experience where the ordinance
was used to save trees.
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Butterfly
viewing is the best in the Summer!
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Change your bird watching binos into close focus
binos for these colorful creatures. The summer heat with
some moisture promotes nectar plants and hatching. They
need heat and moisture - cannot tolerate direct rain. Late
morning risers really enjoy butterfly watching as they
do not come out until the sun is well up in the sky. Then
they also close down before sunset. Birds are mostly early
morning and late afternoon. Locally, you can view butterflies
in your own garden, Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Laguna Atascosa
NWR, SPI Convention Center, Santa Ana NWR, and North American
Butterfly Asso. Center in Mission along with The World
Birding Center. The butterfly images are from the El Cielo
Biosphere area during mid July 2007. On that trip a Butterfly
enthusiast who has hunted butterfly in the area at least
12 times got about 20 new lifer butterflies on this trip.
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HLS
Border Fence
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Activities are moving along to encourage
HLS to reconsider a fence or they type of fence.
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Regal Hairstreak
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colorful of all butterflies and is a hairstreak which
means it has tails that rub back and forth to distract
prey as a defense mechanism. This one is on a banana
leaf. This photo is the only proof it was there, as
it left before the others could travel 30 feet. They
are not easy to see. This is my first in eight years. |
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Nature
Websites
Gladys
Porter Zoo
Sabal
Palm Preserve
Frontera
Audubon
Valley
Nature Center
Los
Ebanos Preserve
Laguna
Atascosa NWLR
Santa Ana NWLR
SPI
Nature Center
Birds
of RGV
Bird
Guiding - and linked trip reports with species and
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About
Us..
Rio
Grande Delta Audubon is dedicated to conservation of our
native habitat for the protection of birds, other wildlife,
and for the enhancement and appreciation of our environment.
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Officers & Board
Lee Zieger, President
Greg Vail, Vice President
Mary Jean Garcia, Secretary
Hugo & Magda Rodriguez, Treasurer
Dorothy Greaney
George Garcia
Margaret Etchinson
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Grande Delta Chapter, Brownsville Texas
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Newsletter
Editor:
Lee Zieger
956-831-4653
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Contact Information:
Lee Zieger:
8801 Boca Chica Brownsville,Texas 878521
Office:(956)831-4653 or 1-866-279-1775
Fax: (956) 831-0147 |
Please
forward this newsletter to others and ask them if we can put
them on our e-mail list.
Some of
the coastal birds are returning with the seismograph activity
slowing
down.
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