Rio Grand Valley Bird Festival

["judy jordan" <thane at accesswest dot com>]

Five days of up at 4:30 to enjoy intensive birding yielded 57 new life 
birds for me!  That figures out to be $17.54 a bird  :>)  .    Totally 
worth it.  We had excellant trip leaders and purposeful trips.  Lots of 
venders where you could try every brand of optics all in one place.  A 
lecture by Tim Galleger of Cornell on the  "Grail Bird" the Ivory Billed 
Wood Pecker,  had everyone at the edge of their seats, laughing, and 
eager to hear more.  Interestingly, he had been  writting a book, 
entitled The Grail Bird and his persuit of it including local folk lore, 
rumors, reported sightings, habitat changes, all the past Cornell 
records of films and sound recordings when a friend,  a relible source, 
reluctantly, reported a sighting.  She didn't want to because she didn't 
feel like she wanted to share with the world that the bird really did 
exist AND she didn't get a picture.  With out proof nobody belives you.
I don't know if my favorite bird was the Anhinga, Crested Caracara, or 
the Clay Colored Robin because they were all so fantastic.  On our last 
day our group saw 115 spieces!  The biggest day for the festival, no 
list padding either. 
The web site is rgvbirdingfestival.com  if anyone is interested.     
Judy

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