Rio Grande Delta Audubon Newsletter April 6, 2009

New Harris Hawk chicks
Image March 28, 2009
See Picture 4-30-09 below.

Rio Grande Delta Audubon
Rio Grande Valley, Texas

E-Newsletter Vol.14 No.7
Chapter Meeting
Monday, June 1, 2009

MARITIME SANITATION
What causes fecal material on our beaches?
First for Port Isebel
Three locations to discharge restroom waste.

Audubon could use some volunteers
What type volunteers can RGDA help with?

Great Horned Owl chick
Taken 4-4-09
Image by Lee Zieger

Websites - Nature & Conservation
Gladys Porter Zoo
Sabal Palm Preserve
Resaca de la Palma State ParkEstero Llano Grande 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.

Officers & Board
Lee Zieger, President
Greg Vail, Vice President
Mary Jean Garcia, Secretary
Laura Duval, Treasurer
Dorothy Greaney
George Garcia

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Newsletter Editor:
Lee Zieger
956-831-4653

Contact Information:
Lee Zieger:
8801 Boca Chica Brownsville,Texas 878521
Office:(956)831-4653 or 1-866-279-1775
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Event: Rio Grande Delta Audubon Chapter meeting.
Date: Monday, June 1, 2009
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Historic Brownsville Museum located at the old Southern Pacific Depot at 7th and East Madison Streets. 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.

Admission: Free
The Rio Grande Delta Audubon Chapter meets at 6:30 p.m. on the the first Monday of each month at the Historic Brownsville Museum, 7th and East Madison.

Maritime Sanitation fighting polution
of our
Laguna Madre and Gulf of Mexico

Fecal material is in our salt water and on our beaches. Here are several ways to fight this distriburben trend. John Hancock will let us know what Maritime Sanitation is doing to reduce this trend. He will also share some of the ways we can help reduce beach trash.

Audubon is reducing some of it's programs that we might help with. I will check out some I am hearing about. Maybe some of you can do the same and bring them up at the meeting.

Field Trip for Harris Hawk family

Harris Hawk Juv. Brownsville, Texas, Image by Lee Zieger

The picture in the upper left of this E-Newsletter is of the first two hatched in this nest. Two more hatched after these first two did on March 28,2009. This picture to the left was taken this Thursday morning April 30, 2009 with the two adults circling.

Harris Hawk Juv. 4-30-09

Greg Vail

Neotropical Tropical Bird Migration
in deep South Texas
and
Migration of Shore Birds

Coming soon!