[texbirds] What a difference a day makes! (rain in Kleberg County)

From: Jim Sinclair <jim.sinclair@xxxxxxxxx>
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:48:23 -0500

As many of you know, the King Ranch has been suffering through the extended
drought just like the rest of South Texas.
On the Santa Gertrudis division at Kingsville there is a small lake called
Borregos Lake that has traditionally been a birding oasis.  It has been
mostly dry for the last couple of years, so we have been maintaining a drip
fed by a barrel.

This past Sunday we were going to be hosting a group from the raptor
conference in Corpus Christi, so I went out on Friday to fill the barrel.
There was only a puddle in the lake, maybe 20 by 30 feet.

Then, on Saturday, the rains came.  Kingsville itself had a lot of street
flooding deep enough to flood out cars.

Our group arrived at Borregos Lake on Sunday.  WOW! The lake has more water
in it than I have ever seen in my 13 years of birding there!  Across the
division all of the ephemeral ponds have water in them for the first time
in years.

I have not visited the playas in southeast Kleberg County yet to see how
they are doing, but I would suspect that they have a lot of water, as well.

-- 
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


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[texbirds] What a difference a day makes! (rain in Kleberg County)

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