Rio Grande Delta Audubon
(RGDA)-
Rio Grande Valley, Texas
E-Newsletter
Vol.14 No.02 - December 1, 2008, Monday 6:30PM
Location - Historic Brownsville Museum directions below
Christmas Bird Count
Harris Hawk family fledged
Recycling Brownsville by Marta Martinez
Recycling in SPI and Port Isabel
Cool
Cities Report
Up Coming Events - mark your calendar
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Mr. & Mrs. Harris Hawk and three chicks - 10-10-08 |
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The 109th Christmas Bird Count (CBC)
Sunday, December 14, 2008 to Monday, January 5, 2009 |
Thanks to Martin Hagne for all the information on the CBC. His efforts in helping build a new CBC team in Brownsville is appreciated.
Join Audubon's citizen science team to tell the world birds are needed. You don't need to be an expert birder to be on the CBC team.
Jimmy Paz of Audubon Sabal Palm has agreed to pull together a team of birders for the count. We will be meeting at Rio RV Park Tuesday 7AM December 30, 2008. It is at 8801 Boca Chica Blvd, Brownsville, Texas and marked on the locator map.
We will meet for assignment to locations and pickup a packet on their assigned location. Birders can request a location prior to the 30th with Lee Zieger, 266-8801 or riorvpark@aol.com. A list of locations will be announced via e-mail shortly.
See the Audubon CBC web page http://www.audubon.org/Bird/cbc/
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| Recycling in Brownsville by Marta Martinez plus SPI and PI |
Come and get the background and reality about recycling in Brownsville, Texas. Marta will go into detail about how all of us can recycle. Opportunities in South Padre Island, Port Isabel, and Laguna Vista will also be explained.
You can take what you learn about recycling back to your family and community so they to can recycle too. |
Harris Hawk - Parent and chick November 5, 2008 |
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Cool
Cities |
We may talk about the work done towards making CoolCities out of Brownsville, Port Isabel, South Padre Island, and Laguna Vista. Joe Lee Rubio on Brownsville, Madelene Sandefur for Laguna Vista, Cate Ball for Port Isabel, and Nancy & Baxter Moyer for South Padre Island who we hope will have time to attend and let us know what is happening in their area. You can be a part by joining the group representing your area.
Reference Web Sites Cool
Cities for Sierra Club and Green
Program for Audubon with Toyota support. |
Up Coming Events |
Nature Birding Festival McAllen, Texas
April 2009
El Cielo Birding Festival coming up. |
Laguna Atascosa NWR - Laguna Loop |
New - Tram Fridays and Saturdays 10AM and 2PM. Just have to show up.
The refuge is open including the Loop. Call 956-748-3607 for up-dates. |
Right - Harris Hawk on nest |
| This Harris Hawk nesting is a fall hatch. The picture was taken September 23, 2008. As of this e-newsletter the female has been on the nest for four weeks so far. |
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Event:
The Rio Grande Delta Audubon Chapter will hold their monthly meeting on Monday, December 1, 6:30 p.m. at the Historic Brownsville Museum at 7th and Madison Streets in Brownsville, Texas. A locator map is on this web site. Contact Lee or Jennie at 956-831-4653 - 866-279-1775 e-mail riorvpark@aol.com for any questions.
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Harris Hawk Family |
A Harris Hawk Family is growing with a Fall Nesting. Three chick started out and as of this writing two have survived. One almost fell off the nest today, November 2, 2008. Look at the pictures from the nesting femal below to the whole family above on October 10, 2008 with the picture below today. You can see the chick's growth.
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Harris Hawks - This is November 2, 2008 |
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Websites -
Nature & Conservation
Gladys
Porter Zoo
Sabal
Palm Preserve
Resaca de la Palma State Park
Frontera
Audubon
Valley
Nature Center
Los
Ebanos
Preserve
Laguna
Atascosa
NWR
Santa Ana NWR
SPI
Nature Center
RGV & NE
Mexico Butterfly Map
Birds
of RGV
Bird
Guiding - and linked trip
reports with species and photos
Landscape
Ordinance-Bro
Sea
Turtle,
Inc. |
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.
Web Site:
RioGrandeDeltaAudubon.org |
Officers & Board
Lee Zieger, President
Greg Vail, Vice President
Mary Jean Garcia, Secretary
Laura Duval, Treasurer
Dorothy Greaney
George Garcia |
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Grande Delta Chapter, Brownsville Texas
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Newsletter
Editor &
Contact Info:
Lee Zieger:
8801 Boca Chica Brownsville,Texas 878521
Office:(956)831-4653 or 1-866-279-1775
Fax: (956) 831-0147
RGDAudubon@aol.com |
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