As Brush mentioned he and I were discussing this just yesterday. There may be a bright spot for the future. I have been working with a landowner that has a relatively small inholding of about 176 acres. The property has some excellent features, including an excellent water feature. Although I have spent just three half days on the property itself, Brush Freeman and I (and a few others) have many, many hours birding immediately around it. I led a couple of tours there during the TOS meeting in Corpus Christi. Although we have not yet seen/heard Ferruginous Pygmy-owl on the property, I have seen them within a mile, and it has proper habitat. Joel Simon even discovered an Aplomado Falcon very near the property a few years back. If this does get established, there will be a small fee, and access would be by reservation only. -- Jim Sinclair (TX-ESA) TOS Life Member Kingsville, TX "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner