Mark & Teri's Travels

We've left Central Texas and are heading for our summer "job" in Colorado. We will take a couple of weeks to make our way nort...

While we were at Laguna Atascosa, we saw plenty of cactus. Just before we left, the Prickly Pear came into bloom and surprised us with thei...

It’s hard to believe our three months are already finished here at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. We have had a wonderful time an...

We have been going out to the South Padre Island Birding Center every Saturday morning and have enjoyed watching the birds going about their...

Lots of people like to fish down here, but I am convinced that the best fishermen on the coast are Ospreys. We see a lot of them, and they a...

But you have to catch them yourselves!! We find little Fiddler Crabs in damp areas all over the refuge and out at the South Padre Island Bir...

The Olive Sparrow's have been ping....ping....ping....pingpingpingpingping ponging here at the Refuge!