Hotel Birding - Fueled by Bird Friendly Coffee
From a hotel somewhere in Harlingen, Texas, Kimberly Writes: Kenn and I are in Texas for the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival where Kenn will be leading several walks and giving a special presentation tomorrow night. We arrived yesterday afternoon, made a brief stop at the convention center where the festival headquarters are located, and headed for our hotel. As we were unpacking the second load from the car, I noticed a couple birds perched atop a smallish shrub in the vacant lot beside the hotel. As we stepped off the pavement to get a better look, we were stunned to see that they were two White-tailed Kites! Well, we took our white tails right back in to our hotel room to fetch optics and cameras, and when we came back there were THREE circling above the hotel. I managed to shoot about 30 seconds of video of one of the birds as it "kited" in one spot. Wait for the 13 second mark and watch as the bird cuts out and heads for parts...