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[playful upbeat music]

- LAUREL WILLIAMS: Can you see that Snowy Egret?

Can you see its legs?

- NARRATOR: Way down in South Texas, there's

a place where you can go to see birds.

- LAUREL: Yeah his feet are yellow and his legs are black.

- NARRATOR: Lots of birds.

- This is Estero Llano Grande State Park

in Weslaco, Texas.

Part of the World Birding Center.

- BIRDER: The one on the left is probably a

Couch's or a Tropical Kingbird.

- BIRDER: There's a Least Grebe in the middle of the pond, no.

- The World Birding Center consists of nine sites

throughout the Rio Grande Valley,

three of those are state parks.

- I'd like to welcome you all to Estero Llano Grande State Park.

- NARRATOR: Here you can see birds in a tree,

birds on the water, birds on a wire,

and birds on a nest.

- MARCY: In the park we have approximately 216 bird species

recorded.

On just a regular day you can sit on this deck for

an hour or two and easily spot 30 to 40 species of birds.

- NARRATOR: All these birds come to Estero Llano Grande

because there is a lot of different habitat in

a little bit of area.

- MARCY: We have shallow wetlands, deep wetlands,

woodlands, thorn scrub.

- The diverse habitat brings in the diverse species,

and that's real important to have here in South Texas.

Diversity begets diversity.

- GUIDE: This is the Fulvous compared to the black bellied

which we saw a lot of.

- What have we seen today?

Black-bellied whistling ducks, black necked stilts,

beautiful views of the Sora today.

For us eastern birders, these are southern specialties.

- NARRATOR: Not all of the residents of Estero Llano Grande

have wings.

The birds share the space with a variety of animals,

some slow, some slithery, and some substantially sizable.

- Yes we do have a few alligators.

And they are a major attraction and we're hoping

that really pulls in some of the locals because they're

really interested and often come to see the alligators

and walk out in the park.

- GUIDE: We do have a family of alligators that live out here,

two adults...

- KYLE: So many people in The Valley haven't heard

of this park.

It's often that you forget about the things that are

closer to you, and you travel to go see amazing things.

- LAUREL: And they'll be swimming out here,

getting some air...

- KYLE: We're starting to teach them by these school groups,

they're quite amazed at what is right here

in their back yard.

There's something for everybody here at our park.

[playful music]

[birds chirping]

For more infomation >> Estero Llano Grande State Park - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official] - Duration: 2:45.

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UTSA's Day of Service: Saturday, March 24th, honoring the Inauguration of President Taylor Eighmy - Duration: 2:07.

Roadrunner Nation, I'm President Taylor Eighmy, and I'm Peggy Eighmy, and we want

to invite you to join us for a Day of Service related to my inauguration as UTSA's sixth

president.

It's going to be on Saturday, March 24th, and we look forward to seeing you on that

great day.

Our UTSA Day of Service reflects our values about our relationship with the city of San

Antonio; and the students that come here are part of this community, and our way to give

back is by this engagement with the city through all of the organizations that are going to

be working with us on this very special day.

There are over 15 local charities and nonprofits that are partnering with UTSA for our Day

of Service.

Whatever you're passionate about, we have the organization for you!

If you like books, you're a reader, you can sort and organize books for the San Antonio

Youth Literacy.

You're great with a hammer?

You can help build a house for Habitat for Humanity.

If you love puppies and running as much as I do, you can staff the Guide Dogs of Texas

5K, and if you love the outdoors, you can help to beautify the grounds of the San Antonio

State Hospital.

Roadrunners can sign up individually or as a group… you can volunteer with your student

organization, your team, your department, your office, or your family!

Roadrunner Nation, this is a very special day, and a special opportunity to give back

to the city of San Antonio.

It's personally important to Peggy and to me!

We are going to be participating… we can't wait to see you there!

Go, Runners!

UTSA's Day of Service is Saturday, March 24th.

For more information, and to register, visit utsa.edu/dayofservice.

For more infomation >> UTSA's Day of Service: Saturday, March 24th, honoring the Inauguration of President Taylor Eighmy - Duration: 2:07.

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South Llano River State Park - Texas Parks & Wildlife [Official] - Duration: 4:11.

[wind blows]

- Folks that come out here to South Llano River State Park,

the main draw is probably the river,

which is why it gets its namesake.

Spring fed, year-round flow!

And then we also have the unique feature of rising up

into the Edwards Plateau.

We go from about 1,700 feet and then rise up another 400 feet!

And throughout that you have canyons, and bluffs

that provide some of the best pictures of the

Hill Country you are ever going to see!

[water riffle]

- ANGLER: Fish on, oh, a Guad!

[hummingbirds flutter]

- Ya, I haven't seen this many in one place before.

They're hovering around the feeder trying to find

a hole to put their little beak in!

[birds chirping]

- South Llano River has four bird blinds.

They all have a water feature.

- BIRDER: There's a bunting!

- SHERRY: And so, you can always count on seeing

a lot of bird activity.

- There's the jay over on the feeder again!

- BIRDER: Oh yeah!

- BIRDER: Oh man!

Tons of birds!!

[paddles splashing]

- SCOTT: For the kids, there's a number of opportunities

where you can hop in the tube, float for two, two and a half

hours down the South Llano River

and get back out and do it again.

- Definitely the hidden gem out there.

It's got a small little shoot area, the current's

not too fast.

Great for children that are like 12 and under,

that want to float a river that's not to hectic.

I consider it really safe for children,

so that's pretty much why we really come here!

- HOLLY PLATZ: You don't often think about the kind of bugs

that live in the river.

- KID: Get em!

- HOLLY: Sweep it against the plants, and then dump

it into your bucket, ok.

- KID: The bug!

- DAD: You got a bug!

We caught something!

- It's neat for the kids to get out and play in the water,

as well as find out about the different bugs

that live in the water!

Look at this!

- I got a beetle!

- HOLLY: Any activity they're in nature,

and they're discovering things!

Hold it real flat there you go!

It's priceless though really to see them all get

excited about everything!

[water splashes]

- SCOTT: The entire park is great for hiking

and biking trails!

Any time you want to hop on your mountain bike,

you have over 25 miles of trails!

I like to mountain bike back here because there's

not a lot of other people back here!

[bike rumble on trail]

Twenty-one hundred acres is a lot land to go play around

on a mountain bike.

It's nice that as soon as you get back here in the

back country with your bike, you really don't

hear anything but birds and the wind!

[grill sizzles]

- DAD: You all ready to eat!

- It's not a big park, you know,

you're not going to have party crowds out here.

And it's a very family-oriented park!

You know, and it's quiet too!

[fire crackles]

- SCOTT: We are an international dark sky park.

- RANGER: Those little spots are moons!

- SCOTT: If we're having a star party, people can come,

we have interpretative ranger that will show you

all the constellations of the sky!

[bird sings]

[bee buzzing]

[wind blows]

We go to our parks, there's that primitive feel!

And even though you can be sitting in the campground

with 50 other campers, you only walk a hundred yards

and you're going to be all alone in the woods!

[water riffle]

And that's what makes it special, because there is

space to be had out here.

[gentle wind blows]

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