Hi, all! Next Saturday (24 AUG) is our monthly Valley Nature Center field trip, and for this excursion we're scheduling a "Sod Farm Hop" in hopes of finding some special migrating shorebirds! We'll also be visiting La Feria Nature Park (King Rails have occurred there, along with other water/marsh birds) and Sugarhouse Ponds (Dan Jones and Tim Brush have reported some good finds, including Willet and Black-bellied Plover, both rather rare fort Hidalgo County). And if something really good shows up in the meantime, who knows where we'll end up?? :-) Meet at the La Feria Whataburger at 7:30, and we'll carpool from there. Cost is $5.00 per person, and all proceeds go to sponsoring a school field trip to the VNC. See you there! MB Mary Beth Stowe McAllen, TX _www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/) 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