Day 7 At Seminole Canyon State Park & Hist. Site

Just as easy to post some pictures that would tell the story of the day. The wind died down, the temps still in the 70's and the sky is bright tonight after a sunset and a great moon rise. Great night for star watching .Lots of planets up there now. Well, at least three.

We "did" Lake Amistad as much as we could as the water level is "way" down, limiting the proximty to the shoreline, but we did locate some 20 birds spedcies including the White Throated Swift, SAge Thrasher and the rufous crowned sparrow (NEW for us).

So here are some pictures and a brief description tghat will tell the story of the day. If yu have any question, leave a note and I will answer, right Therese?

A little preface to Seminole Canyon:

Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site is a 2,172.5 acres (879.2 ha) site operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. It is located on U. S. Highway 90, in Val Verde County, and is adjacent to Amistad National Recreation Area. It is estimated that human habitation of the area began 10,000 years ago, during the Holocene era when mammoth animals would have also inhabited the area. Vegetation is believed to have been a denser and richer variety to support the life of the area. The erosion that happened over the ages can be seen in some of the area rock walls. Indigenous peoples began to leave cave art evidence of their presence some 2,000-8,000 years ago.

             

Cedar waxwings seen at Lake Amistad, TX 

 

 






 A Yucca in early bloom. Many of these are seen here.



                   Lake Amistad from the south side. It is 87 miles long

                        The Border Patrol has roads along most highways and of course the border fence.

                              This is Seminole Canyon site of ancient (2-10,000 years) life  (see pictographs)

                    Here we see two of the many pictographs on the walls of these caves in the canyons.

(Below)  Some of the sites have the "pounding stones" that were used to make colors, grind grain,etc.

                          An, as yet, unidentified cactus in bloom, and the only one we saw that was .

                      And you thought last night's sunset was a good one, eh? This is March 7 2012.