The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"

This web page documents our travels in our RV we have named the "Dog House" Leaving Ontario June 26th 2005 on a year long trip to the Yukon, Alaska, BC then south to Utah, Arizona and Texas The Crew: Captain Zaphod the dog, Helm: Ed, Cook: Frances NOTE: this website is best seen with 1024x768 or higher resolution screen See the milestone dates in right side column to better select archived files

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Beautiful Birds

One of the over 90 birding places in the Rio Grande Valley is the Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park. Zaph was allowed on the trails but not on the tram so we walked through the park — Zaph prefers to walk anyway. The park has several areas set up with bird feeders, pools and bird blinds. What a nice way to watch birds --- sit on a bench and wait for the birds to come to the feeders. We saw Green Jays, Ring-necked Ducks, American Coots, Gold-fronted Woodpeckers, Altamira Orioles, Plain Chachalacas, Inca Doves and many more. Of course there was a squirrel sitting in one of the bird feeds and a Javelina wandering around underneath the feeder looking for any seeds that had fallen to the ground. At one of the blinds, a Javelina cooled off by sitting in the pool.


Gold-fronted Woodpecker


Green Jay


Altamira Oriole and Green Jays


Ringed-necked Ducks


Great Kiskadee


Northern Cardinal


Plain Chachalaca

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Date Milestones
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2005:
May 26; leave Ontario
June 02; enter Alberta
June 05; reach Dawson Creek, start of the Alaska/Canadian (Alcan) highway
June 13; Skagway AK
June 21; Reach Dawson City YK
June 24; travel top of World Highway
July 04; Deneli NP AK
July 12; Anchorage AK
Aug 07; return to BC
Aug 29; Vancouver Island
Sept 23; Penticton BC
Oct 14; leave BC heading south
Oct 16; Moab UT
Oct 27; Las vegas NV
Nov 27; Arizona
2006:
Jan 16; Big Bend NP TX
Jan 26; Rio Grande Valley
Mar 01; Port Aransas
Apr 01; San Antonio

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