Spring Migration on the upper Gulf coast of Texas
If you are an avid bird watcher in the US, you know about spring migration. Birds are on the move from their wintering sites to their breeding locations. The spot we go to on the upper Gulf Coast is the first place many birds see after their overnight flight across the Gulf of Mexico from their takeoff points on the Yucatan Peninsula.
They are tired and need to replenish their energy stores before dispersing across all of North America to their summer breeding grounds. It is the one place where you will see many birds all at the same time, in breeding plumage, low to the ground, plus a little tired so easier to see.
The Dillinger Annual Spring Migration
We have been going to this part of Texas every spring now since 1999. For us, it is now as much social as it is about the bird watching.
So, I'm in Texas
I usually try to get some golf in, and head to the Chambers County Golf Course in Anahuac. For $30 I get cart and as much golf as I want. I then drive back over to High Island to pick up a friend. Monday I got a reminder that I was, in fact, in Texas.
These cattle weren't loose, they were being moved down the highway to a pen. Eventually the cowboys parted the herd and we drove through.
Mooooo!
We spend most of our time in Sabine Woods over outside of Sabine Pass, TX, and on the road out to Sea Rim Sate Park.
I spend a lot of time in a camp chair at this pond, reading my books and watching birds coming in to the drip.
And this is what I look like most of the time.
