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Monday, April 01, 2013  The reddish egrets have arrived, swooping in by the hundreds on Green Island.

Wednesday, March 02, 2011  Swooping in with wings extending out ward some six feet, the great blue herons are an impressive sight as they soar to their nesting colony on Green Island in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Monday, February 14, 2011  The wildflowers and yuccas are blooming on Green Island, a thirty-five acre site just northeast of the Arroyo Colorado.

Monday, December 06, 2010  A suspected infestation of red imported fire ants on the important nesting site Green Island in the Lower Laguna Madre recently brought a team of scientists from the Texas AgriLife Extension Service to the Audubon Society protected island.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010  Green Island is the most important nesting sanctuary in the Lower Laguna Madre. Nature Reporter  Richard Moore is wrapping up work on a documentary on the historic island. Here's a special preview of the "Birds of Green Island" set to the music of Mario Aleman from Weslaco.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010  Isla Verde or Green Island as it is known in English is an oasis of lush and thorny habitat in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Monday, July 05, 2010  Hurricane Alex skirted the Valley, making landfall some 100 miles south, but the exceptionally high tides associated with the storm caused considerable loss of life to shorebirds nesting on spoil islands in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010  It is first light and the wading pool is already teeming with waterbirds.

Monday, June 14, 2010  Several times a week, Audubon Warden Leroy Overstreet glides up to the rickety old pier on Green Island in the Lower Laguna Madre and makes his rounds.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010  Hundreds of noisy terns and gulls fill the air on the Laguna Vista spoil island just north of the causeway.

Monday, June 07, 2010  Perched above its bulky nest of sticks on Green Island, a great egret pauses before descending. As the adult gracefully touches down on the edge of the nest, it vocalizes to the young.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010  Perched atop the thorny brush on Green Island, a great blue heron surveys the surroundings before dropping down to feed its pair of hungry offspring.

Wednesday, April 07, 2010  As the sun slips beyond the distant horizon, a pale moon starts its ascent into the evening sky over Green Island.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010  Revered in ancient Chinese literature and coveted by fashionable American ladies of the early 1900s, the beautifully-plumed great egrets have arrived on Green Island in the Lower Laguna Madre.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010  Nesting season is about to enter full swing for roseate spoonbills on Laguna Madre's Green Island.