
Today was a transition day with around 250 miles travelled – moving away from the Galveston coast inland to Corpus Christi. We called in on several sites to break up the journey. First was Lafitte’s Cove – a lovely ‘pocket park’ in a very well-heeled suburb – which we’d first visited with Bob & Sue. A reasonable selection of warblers, vireos and contender for ‘bird of the day’ – a fly-over Magnificent Frigatebird. We dropped in at Dos Vacas Muertas again, adding Bullock’s Oriole and Northern Parula to the trip list. Our final stop was another site found on our first Texas tour, this time the Neotropical Bird Sanctuary at Quintana. Another very birdy ‘lot’ surrounded by oil refineries. We drove the 160 miles to our motel in Port Aransas only to be told that our booking had been cancelled! It being Easter weekend we had to travel another forty miles away from the coastal resort to secure lodgings for the night! A move which has cost us a ‘banker’ US tick – American Flamingo. I’m not not a happy (Easter) bunny.

