Hey, friends. I didn’t want to write this twice, so please check out the great field trip I went on today with my Master Naturalist group.
Nature Along the El Camino Real
by Sue Ann Kendall
Thanks to some impressive detective work, a group of folks from the El Camino Real Master Naturalist group, along with some Master Gardeners and friends, got to visit what may be the largest privately-owned collection of purple martin houses in the US.
Who, What, Where?
For years, people had been telling our resident purple martin expert, Donna Lewis, that there was “a guy in Milam County” with a whole lot of purple martin houses. She never could find out where the “guy” was, until the intrepid Cathy Johnson got wind of where he might be. So, they called him up and visited the place recently. It’s probably the highlight of Donna’s birding career.

Well, of course, they knew we’d all want to visit, too, so they…
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