Bentsen-Rio Grande World Birding Center, Texas [Official]
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park is headquarters of the World Birding Center, a chain of nature areas in the premier birding area of south Texas. For more information, visit WorldBirdingCenter.org
Land cleared for new border wall in Mission, Texas
Contractors have begun clearing land south of the levee at La Parida Banco Wildlife Refuge tract west of Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park in Mission, TX. On Thursday, Feb. 14, a drone captured the progress of heavy machinery on the site of planned border wall construction.
Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort
Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort is the only community in the Rio Grande Valley built to bring peace to your family by surrounding you with nature!
Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort is located within Bentsen Palm’s 2,600 acres of Texas paradise. This unique Master-Planned Conservation Community is designed to promote and protect the beauty of nature. It is a close-knit community where friendships start, grow and last a lifetime. Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort has a genuine neighborhood feel calling to mind simpler times when neighbors gathered on the front porch to visit and relax.
With an amazing location walking distance of state and city parks, Bentsen Palm Village has something for everyone. Rated the best mid-size RV resort in America, Bentsen Palm offers first-class facilities, amenities, and outstanding staff. Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort has been independently rated as one of the top midsized RV resorts in the U.S. and the #1 large RV resort in Texas.
Friendships at Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort are built and strengthened with the dazzling variety of activities available to park residents. Your choices include:
Heated pool, hot tub, climate-controlled fitness center, fully equipped wood shop, organic garden, craft room, horseshoes, bocce ball, outdoor billiards, pickle ball, dog park with agility court, multipurpose club house, fire pits, bbq grills, 10 miles of hike and bike trails, walking distance to the National Butterfly Park, the largest outdoor butterfly park in North America, and free passes to Bentsen State Park, where the World Birding Center Headquarters are located. Free loaner bicycles, canoes, kayaks & ATVs. Private skeet shooting range, Zumba and exercise classes, dance lessons, nature walk, pot luck soicals.
Bentsen Palm Village RV Resort is simply one of the most well planned, friendly environments ever built. It's a great place to stay!
Camping with Friends in South Texas, USA
Enjoy camping with family and friends. Learn basic bushcraft skills and watch wildlife up-close and personal.
We spent 4 days primitive camping at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park and World Birding Center at Mission, Texas USA. The park consists of 797 acres of subtropical resaca woodlands and drier thorny brush lands.
Videography by Ken Kramm, 18 March 2017; Canon Vixia HF G30, iPhone 7+, Final Cut Pro X.
Mission, Texas (AWSOME BORDER TOWN!)
Driving in Mission, Texas. Mission Has a population for 77,000 residents and is located close to the border of United States and Mexico. This town was really fun to visit!
U.S. Record Butterflies spotted in Mission TX
RGV Winter Vacation
Get away from the cold icy and snowy winters of the northern US and Canada. Come to the Texas Tropics! Enjoy warm sunny days in the South Texas Rio Grande Valley, where snowbirds transform into Winter Texans. This is the NUMBER ONE Winter Destination in the United States.
SureStay Hotel Mission TX
Reserve : SureStay Hotel Mission TX, 609 East Expressway 83, Mission, Texas, 78572. It is just 7 miles from McAllen Miller International Airport. A breakfast buffet and rooms with free Wi-Fi are featured at this hotel in Mission Texas. The biggest attraction in the region is the Anzalduas International Bridge, close in distance to our hotel. SureStay Hotel Mission TX hotel's near attractions McAllen Botanical Gardens, McAllen Convention Center, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park and More.
Firemens Park McAllen TX
Quick video of Laketown firemens Park in McAllen TX DJI Phantom 3 Pro
Danny's Mexican Restaurant / Mission, Texas
Winter Texan TV in select hotels and RV Resorts in the Rio Grande Valley Texas
What to do in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Every time I go to a convention or meeting, someone always asks, “Where is the lower Rio Grande Valley?” The lower Rio Grande Valley is in the southern tip of Texas, right before you get to Mexico. The Rio Grande separates Mexico from the United States. If you love warm weather, sunshine, palm trees, and exotic birds, this is the place for you.
There are plenty of great attractions in the Rio Grande Valley. If you enjoy fun in the sun, check out South Padre Island. It’s also a great place for fishing! Other great fishing locations include the coast and Port Mansfield.
If you’re preparing for college, check out the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. If you’re a birdwatcher, we have many facilities and areas filled with exotic birds. If you like wildlife, take a hike through the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. Don’t forget, SpaceX wants to launch a rocket here in 2018!
Of course, all you snowbirds and winter Texans are always welcome to come on down and enjoy the weather. If you have any questions, give me a call or send me an email. I would be happy to help you!
Alligator of Del Valley Tx
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Quality Inn Pharr in Pharr TX
Website: . . .. .. ... . .. .. ... . .. .. .. Quality Inn Pharr 1301 West Expressway 83 Pharr TX 78577 The Quality Inn hotel is conveniently located in Rio Grande Valley, just three miles from the McAllen Miller International Airport. This Pharr hotel is minutes from the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, South Texas College, Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle-National Shrine and the border of Mexico. Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park, Smitty's Juke Box Museum, Ye Old Clock Museum and La Plaza Mall are also nearby. A golf course is two miles away. A variety of restaurants are located in the surrounding area. Hotel amenities and features include free expanded continental breakfast, free local calls, free weekday newspaper, free coffee and wireless internet access. Guests can also enjoy the exercise room, seasonal outdoor pool and hot tub. This Pharr hotel provides business travelers with conveniences like executive desks with data ports, two telephone lines with voice mail and access to copy and fax services. There are meeting and banquet rooms available to accommodate most events and business functions. All spacious guest rooms include refrigerators, microwaves, hair dryers, irons, ironing boards, coffee makers and cable television with HBO. Guest laundry facilities are located on the property. Handicap accessible and non-smoking rooms are also available.
Destination Rio Grande: Deming, New Mexico to Las Cruces scenic viewpoint 2015-05-20
East of the continental divide, Interstate 10 descends to the lower elevation of the Rio Grande Valley.
0:01-5:20 Leaving downtown Deming, New Mexico on Business 10
5:20 Entering Interstate 10 east
43:25 Exiting to scenic rest area across Mesilla Valley west of Las Cruces, New Mexico (full view on next video in uploader playlist)
URL to map of this drive from Deming, New Mexico to the scenic lookout of the valley just west of Las Cruces rest area:
URL to playlist of all videos captured on this trip east from Los Angeles, California:
Border Wall Construction will run Through State Park
A levee-bollard fence will run 9,000 feet through the Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park.
Stop Trump's Border Wall
And so it begins.
The surveryor’s stakes marking the 150 ft “clearing zone” for Trump’s Border Fence appeared at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, TX, on Thursday, July 20, along with a work crew with chain saws and heavy equipment.
When Marianna Trevino Wright, executive director of the nonprofit center confronted them, the crew explained they were hired by the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection to remove trees and brush along a 1.2 mile road from the levee to the Rio Grande River; this is a private road, on private property, held by the North American Butterfly Association. About halfway down the road lay a big, white X marking the spot where engineers had taken a core soil sample to determine the suitability of this place for construction.
‘Bugs vs. Americans. Bugs lose.’
One short-sighted commentator’s glib response to the situation summarizes part of the ignorance surrounding everything at stake here. This isn’t all about the butterflies.
No permission was requested to enter the property or begin cutting down trees. The center was not notified of any roadwork, nor given the opportunity to review, negotiate or deny the workplan. Same goes for the core sampling of soils on the property, and the surveying and staking of a “clear zone” that will bulldoze 200,000 square feet of habitat for protected species like the Texas Tortoise and Texas Indigo, not to mention about 400 species of birds. The federal government had decided it will do as it pleases with our property, swiftly and secretly, in spite of our property rights and right to due process under the law.
Why should you care?
1) If you own property or value your Constitutional right to due process, you should be very concerned about the government doing entering property without permission or due process. Altering it. Destroying it. Coming onto it and killing creatures that live there with reckless indifference. Your home or property could be next.
2) If you think the “Border Fence” will stop illegal immigration, you are mistaken. The fence has gates and gaps every mile or so where people can pass through; so the fence is actually a FUNNEL, designed to direct those crossing into our country to areas where Border Patrol agents may more easily monitor and intercept traffic—that is, unless people use ladders or scale the fence on their own, which they do.
3) If you pay taxes, you should understand the Border Fence is not a solution to the problem of illegal immigration. It is a waste of tax dollars.
In this 38-mile length of fence the Trump Administration seeks to build, more than 30 million square feet of vegetation may be cleared. Some of this will be private land, such as ours, but some of it will be public land, like the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge and Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park. These are YOUR lands.
These lands hold our history as a nation; our cultural history and natural history. They are home to our natural treasures and, in many cases, the last foothold for endangered species, like the Ocelot.
For this reason, the National Butterfly Center is taking a stand. We are joining dozens of private property owners in taking legal action against the efforts of the federal government to deprive us of our property rights.
If the federal government succeeds in tossing due process and usurping private property rights, all Americans lose.
PLEASE JOIN US!
You can stand with us by contributing to our Legal Defense Fund: or by joining the National Butterfly Center, today:
The National Butterfly Center is a nonprofit environmental conservation and education project of the North American Butterfly Center. Members receive admission to the property, discounts on purchases in our gift shop and native plant nursery, and reciprocal admission benefits to almost 300 botanical gardens across the United States through our participation in the American Horticultural Society’s RAP. Members also receive NECTAR, our monthly e-newsletter.
Please help us preserve this land and the precious habitat and wildlife it contains!
2013/03/21 3:39 PM CDT Altamira Oriole (TX)
Sabal Palm Sanctuary Bird Feeder Cam
lower Rio Grande Valley, TX, USA
March 21, 2013 - 3:39 pm CDT
Two Border Patrol agents rushed to McAllen hospital
Border Patrol rushed two agents to McAllen Medical Center on Sunday afternoon after another vessel struck a Border Patrol boat near Anzalduas Park.
Isla Blanca Park Aerial View, SPI V.2
Isla Blanca Park Aerial View on South Padre Island, Texas taken August 2015.
Not your typical cat video
The National Butterfly Center has LOTS of wildlife--not just butterflies and birds. Bobcats are some of our favorite residents. Isn't this one a beauty!
Did you know nearly 150 species of North American butterflies can be seen only in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) of Texas, or by traveling to Mexico?
In fact, more than 300 species of butterflies may be found in the LRGV, and more than 200 species have been seen at the National Butterfly Center, including a number of rarities and U.S. Records!
Incredibly, almost 40% of the 700+ butterflies that can be found in the United States can be seen in this three-county area at the southernmost tip of Texas, where the subtropical climate makes it possible to enjoy the outdoors year 'round.