This weekend was an adventure at two of the nearby Texas Wildlife refuges-Brazoria Wildlife Refuge and San Bernard Wildlife Refuge. we took the road trip on Friday - a nice Spring morning.
Our first assault at San Bernard refuge came in the form of MASSIVE Squadrons of Mosquitos!! They were beating on the truck windows like a small army of ZOMBIES trying to get in at us. Outside they swarmed our faces, up my nose, ears, biting our legs - I had to get dressed up in sweat pants and a windbreaker to fight off their vicious attack.
That refuge was full of mosquitos but also full of TEN FEET PLUS -LONG BIG ALLIGATORS! SO we endured the mosquitos for the birding and the big gator sightings.
Our next stop was the Lake Jackson SEA CENTER- which is a nice little aquarium and nature trail-and no mosquitos.
Finally after a chicken fried steak at the Country CAFE- we found our way to Brazoria Wildlife Refuge.
We thanked the Lord God that this place was relatively free of the mosquito swarms. Not as many gators but we did encounter the "devil Gator" who proceeded to attack my truck and even attempted to climb under it. Gayln was in the truck bed trying to get photos while he hissed like Godzilla and snapped and rolled at us. I rolled up the window when he got too close each time.
Finally he slid back away from us and watched us with an evil face from the water.
Quite a fun trip- with sightings of Caracaras, Harriers, Kestrels, egrets, herons, coots, grebes, shovelers, pintails, teals, and many many more.
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