{"id":1124,"date":"2011-05-05T19:12:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T19:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2011-05-21T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T17:06:36","slug":"neals-lodges-concan-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Neal’s Lodges, Concan, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neal’s Lodges, is a birding mecca in the central Texas town of Concan, Uvalde County. At the various drips and feeders around this commercial establishment, I was able to get quite close to some life birds.<\/p>\n

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Olive Sparrow<\/p>\n

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Brewer’s Sparrow<\/p>\n

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Golden-Fronted Woodpecker<\/p>\n

What proved to be most exciting part of the stay however was an armed holdup at the local bank which I narrowly missed. I had the vague notion of exchanging a 100 dollar bill at this establishment just minutes before the event. Fortunately, I passed up the opportunity. Apparently the culprit fled on foot into the surrounding scrub land and a Border Patrol helicopter was called in to perform a low level search.<\/p>\n

The noise from this activity effectively destroyed the bird watching for the rest of the day. The next morning at the general store across from the bank I overheard two women talking about the perpetrator’s capture.<\/p>\n

“Good”, said one to the other. “I hope they string him up!”<\/p>\n

Like Dorothy said to Toto, “We’re not in Kansas anymore!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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