For the birds …

The Rio Grande Valley is the place to be!  I hadn’t realized it would be quite so tropical.  It was a trip full of “firsts”.  My favorite was this little guy, which lays perfectly motionless on the ground during the day blending in with the leaf cover

But the highlight for everyone there came when somebody spotted this seriously lost bird. Only the second recorded sighting in the United States.

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.