Date: 02/01/2010

Number: 1

Spring is right around the corner in Texas. Purple Martins were reported at several places in the southern half of Texas this week, two locations in our county. Elm, ash, juniper, and mountain cedar pollen showed up this week to excite our allergies. The backyard has been full of warblers the past two weeks. This morning Altus saw one with a yellow breast but before she got to the window with binoculars she couldn't find it again. Our backyard Asclepias curassavica that we saved from the hard freeze in early January started sprouting the middle of last week when there was finally a string of warm days. It got to 24 here along the bay, most of the state was in the teens and the freeze lasted for three days about Jan 6. The large population of overwintering monarchs we had going into January in Texas got wiped out the end of the first week of January by the freeze. We've heard of no sightings of monarchs in the wild after the first week January around the state. Saw some white pelicans resting on an oyster reef out in the bay near the causeway last week before they continued their migration ... white against the chocolate bay.

Port Lavaca, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -96.7

Observed by: Harlen E.
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