Frontera Audubon - Weslaco, Texas
Posted by: 
JimmyEv
N 26° 08.876 W 097° 59.386
14R E 600978 N 2892458
Frontera Audubon offers 15-acres of prime bird-watching territory. Trails near the house wind through a grove of grapefruit trees; further in, the trail wanders over boardwalks to bird blinds set along a small resaca.
Waymark Code: WM3RB6
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/10/2008
Views: 55
The Spanish Colonial Revival Skaggs House, built in 1927, is being restored for the offices of the Frontera Audubon Society. The society has already restored the home’s estate to near-natural habitat. Most of the ecosystem is the typical Tamaulipaus brush found throughout the Valley, but there is a surprising patch of Sabal Palm Forest, one of the few remnants outside of the
Sabal Palm Sanctuary near Brownsville. Directly adjacent to the Skaggs house is a small grapefruit grove - a reminder of how the Skaggs made their fortune.
Lot of birds find their way here, and the park is overflowing with photographers. For a pleasant walk, you can stitch together a 0.70-mile loop from the house, through the grapefruit grove, around the resaca and into the Sabal Palm Forest.
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