An excellent wetland area for ducks, grebes and, especially herons and cormorants. It has been designated as a World Birding Center with a magnificent visitor center.
All the sites in this section are treated, in detail and with precise maps and directions, in my book ‘Finding Birds in South Texas’
If you have any information which you feel would help to update the book, please email me at dave@easybirder.co.uk and I’ll add your observations to these pages
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Edinburg Scenic wetlands
Round the back of the visitor center is a pool that is good for migrants and wintering warblers and, in the shadows of the building, a hummingbird feeder that, on our trip, attracted more species than any other in the Valley
The view from one of the platforms overlooking the main lake. Great for wildfowl at any time of day...
... but at dusk there’s an impressive build up of roosting herons and cormorants in the bushes to the right
The entrance to the reserve is marked by this impressive sign. Well, it would be impressive if you could read what it said.
