Texas - November, 2019

Alan attended a biomechanics conference in San Antonio, Texas; Carol went sight-seeing and, after the conference, both went birding at various locations outside of the city.

Our downtown hotel was adjacent to the River Walk

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Section of the River Walk

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Riverside dining (lots of Tex-Mex!) in the evenings

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An internationally-famous landmark - The Alamo - was just a block from our hotel

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Historically, The Alamo was a much larger facility

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Nighttime illuminations

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The mission tour included several examples of Spanish colonial missions in and around San Antonio such as Mission San Juan

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Mission Concepción

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Mission Espada

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Mission church interior

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Mission San José

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Our birding included wetland areas...

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...with Black-bellied Whistling Ducks...

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...and Snowy Egrets

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At other locations we found shorebirds such as this Willet...

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...and lots of Laughing Gulls

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Grapefruit at a feeder at one of the refuges was being enjoyed by a Golden-fronted Woodpecker

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Tucked in the woods was a Curve-billed Trasher

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An Olive Sparrow was feeding by the side of one of the trails

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And, on a hydro pole alongside the road, a Crested Caracara

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