Subject: [Tweeters] Texas Galveston Birding
Date: Jan 26 19:35:56 2011
From: Wilson Cady - gorgebirds at juno.com
Louise, Get the ABA Birder's Guide to the Upper Texas Coast as it is very complete. You are less than 90 minutes from High Island which you should not miss visiting. Take the free Galveston-Bolivar ferry and stop at Bolivar Flats and Rollover Pass for shorebirds, rails and terns. Houston Audubon manages four birding spots on High Island, Boy Scout Woods and Smith Oaks are the most famous. They have hired professional birding guides to lead daily tours of these two spots plus the shorebird sites previously mentioned that are include in the daily admission fee of $5. For more information on High Island visit: http://www.houstonaudubon.org/default.aspx?MenuItemID=197&MenuGroup=High+Island&&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1Barry Woodruff and I were there last April and the birding was fast and furious with a new group of migrants every day that we were there. Wilson Cady
Skamania County, WA Wilson Cady
Skamania County, WA
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From: "Louise Rutter" <louise.rutter at eelpi.gotdns.org>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] Texas Galveston Birding
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:09:56 -0800
A work conference is putting me on Galveston Island, TX in mid-April – could be worse! I’m considering which books to invest in, and looking on Amazon, I’m debating:
Finding Birds on the Great Texas Birding Trail: Houston, Galveston and Upper Texas, by Ted L Eubanks Jr
Exploring the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, by Mel White (Falcon Guide)
Birdlife of Houston, Galveston and the Upper Texas Coast, by Ted L Eubanks Jr
Birding Texas, by Roland H Wauer (Falcon Guide)
If anyone has experience using these books, particularly in the Galveston Island area, I would appreciate your comments. Of course, if you know of better books, I’d love to hear that too. I will be hiring a car, but I’m not looking to drive more than about 90 minutes from Galveston Island to bird, so if anyone has recommendations for good bird spots in that radius, please fill me in!
Louise Rutter
Kirkland