Valley Headlines
The latest headlines from the Rio Grande Valley.
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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.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
The wildflowers and yuccas are blooming on Green Island, a thirty-five acre site just northeast of the Arroyo Colorado.
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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.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Tucked in the crook of an old mesquite limb is a barely discernible sign of life.
A pair of newly hatched ground doves squirms down in the woody depression, trying to keep as low a profile as possible to avoid detection by any sharp-eyed predator.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
It is peak nesting season in southernmost Texas and in the Rio Grande Valley there is a nest for every niche.
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