We’re heading for Big Bend, which involves a lot of driving. Today we departed our overnight stop of Zapata after an early morning bird of the town park. Morelet’s Seedeater was a ‘no show’ but we did catch up with a nice flock of warblers which included: Nashville, Yellow, Magnolia and Black & White. Next stop was one of our favourite Rio Grande location – San Ignacio. Unfortunately it failed to deliver any of the target birds 😦 Next stop was the Las Palmas river trail in Laredo. This did us proud with Black Phoebe, Green Kingfisher and Mexican Duck. Not bad for a lunchtime stop-over. We arrived at our overnight accommodation in Del Rio, dropped our bags and headed out birding. This time a drive along Vega Verde Road, produced some unexpected duck species, including Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead and Gadwall, a couple of sparrow sp. and Bell’s Vireo. Tomorrow we have another long drive to reach Big Bend State Park.