TPW MAG MAY PREVIEW: The coveted spring birding issue 
of Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine is coming to a 
newsstand near you...details ahead on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife 

Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine celebrates the joy of 
birding in its May issue. Managing editor, Louie Bond, 
shares one story you'll find inside.

My favorite story for this particular May is a first-person 
anecdotal story, which I always love the best. Carol Flake 
Chapman, one of our great writers, went out on her first 
Christmas Bird count. And she went to Freeport. There's about 
fifteen hundred of these bird counts, around Christmastime, 
around the country; Freeport was started about fifty years ago 
by birding legend Victor Emanuel when he was sixteen years 
old -- and he still participates. And in the seventies, the count 
became so high in Freeport, that they really rose to the top of 
the list. So, this is really one of the most prestigious bird 
counts. And one of my favorite anecdotes from the story, Carol 
gets out there on the jetties, which around Christmas, the 
waves are crashing, the weather's horrendous, and there's this 
veteran birder out there, he's been out there on that jetty every 
year for ten years. And while she's out there, the guy looks 
through his scope and says -- "Is it? It's a Black legged kittiwake!" 
And apparently, it's the first time he's ever seen a Black-legged 
Kittiwake. And he says, "After all t his that I've been through, I 
deserve a Black-legged Kittiwake." So, she shared this incredible 
moment with this birder, and as she ends her story, I think it's 
so appropriate -- it's a great example of why every bird counts.

The spring birding issue of Texas Parks and Wildlife 
Magazine is on newsstands now.

That's our show ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm 
Cecilia Nasti. 










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