We have been in the Rio Grande Valley for over a month. We know where towns are and know our positions here. We work at the visitor center and are drivers on the tour & will be giving the tour talk soon. We are still on a high learning curve but have managed to see this small place in the RGV / National Wildlife Refuge of Laguna Atascosa as home for a few months. Emma now knows her way around. We bike to work and have had opportunities to participate/watch the ongoing studies of the animals here. The birds are varied and amazing, the wildlife different from what we are used to and some the same-like the coyote. I have seen live armadillo, lots of different birds like the plain chachalaca, Mexican eagle/Crested Caracara and the Aplomado falcon which is endangered and has benefited from a captive breeding program here. In the LRGV there are 25 nesting Alomado pairs now when in 1999 there were none. I have yet to see the endangered elusive ocelot or the invasive nilgai, that weighs 400 to 600 pounds and looks like a huge deer, small head and runs like a horse. It is from India and purchased legally on a game ranch but it does not know boundaries and loves it here. Tonight we will be going on a biologist project counting animals at night and I might see one. John has seen one from a distance and one person came into the visitor center thinking he saw a moose. There are no moose in LRGV but after showing him a picture of the nilgai, he said that is what he saw!
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| Home Sweet Home until just before 2014 |
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| The visitor center where we work |
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