While visiting the Crazies's grandparents in Houston for Christmas, we, the parents, decided to challenge the Crazies to a Big Day. We headed east towards High Island, TX, one of the birding Meccas of the North America, with the goal of seeing at least 50 different species of birds. The kids quickly warmed to the idea, and began trying to identify birds shortly after passing downtown Houston on I-10.
As it turned out, we never made it to High Island because we took a detour at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. There we walked and drove around the refuge, the kids eagerly taking turns with binoculars, looking for alligators and birds, and recording our findings. Before we knew it, the orange and pink of sunset was spreading across the sky, and our Big Day was coming to a close. By the end of it, we had seen 63 different species of birds.
A sampling of some of the more interesting birds we saw on our outing:
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