Journal Tricket, J.A. 1992 Lower Rio Grande Valley, Hidalgo & Cameron Counties, Texas April 26 a nearly field was given to millets, she told me. Among naturalists, (Crinit) Salad Palm Sanctuary is probably better known to herpetologists and lepidopterists for species whose U.S distribution is almost coincident with sanctuary boundaries. I visited the sanctuary from 15:15 to 17:30. I then sped to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Cameron Co., but when I arrived (18:30) two iron road gates were already locked. I spent the remaining hour of daylight walking two trails through mesquite & grassland near the roadsquations. I camped at a particularly lovely county park just north of the refuge. Weather today was clear, humid and pleasantly warm, with E. freezes after 12:30. Temperatures ranged from 68-85° F. Species List (ACP = Oupalduces County Park; SPS Salad Palm Sanctuary; NWR = Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge) N.B.: where taken seen multiple places, sequence of numbers is given respectively to sequence of sites targeted: Cameron sp. ACP Audubon cardinals - 1,SPS Cardinalis sp - many SPS; 1 NWR Birds: common sp - 1 NWR Coyote's Hawk - ACP Great Blue Heron - 1 NWR Harris' Hawk - ACP Great Egret - SPS,NWR Grey Hawk - ACP Snowy Egret - NWR Swainson's Hawk - SPS, NWR Ivied Bird Thren - NWR Plain Chachalacoa - ACP,SPS Cattle Egret - SPS,NWR N. Buteo White - ACP Green-backed Hum - SPS Solitary Sandpiper - 2, SPS Black-crowned Nightjar NUR Laughing Gull - ACP,SPS, NWR Black-collared Whistling Duck - ACP, SPS Caspian Tern - NUR Turkey Vulture - ACP small-wed Stone sp. - 1 NWR 2 Hawk-billed Kite - 1, ACP Rock Dove - many Harlingen Black-headed Kite - ACP