It was Global Birding Big Day today so we had a tricky balance to strike between sites visited and time spent on the road, travelling another 250 miles east towards Houston. We started at South Llano at dawn seeing most of the stuff we’d seen the previous afternoon, but we did managed to see our two target birds – Black-capped Vireo (again) and Golden-cheeked Warbler, a specialist Edwards Plateau breeder. The latter a list addition – yet again preventing a ‘dot day’. It was then back to our motel to pack up before heading west, via the Junction poo ponds. A nice selection of waders there but fewer ducks and no Black Tern from the previous day. We broke our journey at an urban park in San Antonio – Crescent Bend Nature Park – where we had a reasonable selection of birds despite the time of day. We hadn’t reckoned on an hours delay to check in to our hotel at Sealy – some dispute between them and Booking.com – so by the time we got out again we could only managed a couple of hours at our final spot of the day, the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge. A few additions to the Global Birding day list – total over 80 species – but alas no chickens. Not that we were really expecting to see these super rare birds at this time of the year – but you’ve got to try! It was dark when we finally got back to the hotel.