Re: NANFA-- austin texas

Mark Otnes (markotnes_at_email.msn.com)
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:32:50 -0600

That sounds like at awesome place ... great fish, mammals, birds, and I'm
sure much more. My only visit to the area was in basic training at Lackland
Air Force Base. I would like to see it again under better circumstances.

Everything is in the deep freeze up here in North Dakota and Northern
Minnesota. I may try a little seining on Friday in an open stretch of the
Ottertail River. Maybe I'll get lucky and get a burbot. I did some boreal
bird watching over the weekend on a remote back road in northern Minnesota
and got stopped by the border patrol. Apparently if I had kept going on the
road I was on, in another 200 yards I would have been in Manitoba. There
were no signs or anything and it sure surprised the heck out of me. Anyway
I didn't look like a terrorist so there was no problem. I finally got a
real jinx bird, the Northern Three-toed Woodpecker and it only took me 42
years! It was the last regular species of Minnesota bird that I hadn't
seen, I'm almost sorry I finally got it as it takes some of the excitement
out of all of it. Anyway enough non-fish talk. Take care everyone,

Mark Otnes
Fargo ND

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- austin texas

> >If you ever are looking for a fun way to spend a couple days and see some
> >really cool fish, the Edwards Plateau rocks, and when you can find water,
> >west Texas is pretty fun, too. Pretty funny, we hit five sites looking
for
> >bigscale logperch from the Colorado, but lucked into one of the best
sites
> >in the whole trip, right in downtown Austin! There's a small reservoir,
and
> >the habitat just below the dam is phenomenal- five darter taxa, and easy
> >access- there's a softball complex right there.
> >
> >
> >that would be barton springs. bone chilling water in the winter. dusky
> >darters are there. san marcos springs near by. great TEXAS snorkling!
>
> Plus, in downtown Austin there's a huge Mexican Freetail Bat colony that
> lives under a bridge (Congress St.??) that takes off every sunset in a big
> plume of swirling bats. Bats, my fave mammals!
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
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