Hey!  This is Marci Fuller the RGVBF Chair bloggin’ at you. The pic is me in the Peruvian Amazon, binocking macaws from a canopy tower (and yeah, okay, I’m wearing white). Let’s launch this new website in style, starting with one of Richard Crossley’s kickin’ photos:

Groove-billed Ani.  There’s a little troop of them living in my yard here in South Texas.  Not your aaaaaaverage black bird.

But wait.  Here’s what I REALLY want to do:  give KUDOS to our top-secret behind-the-scenes in-the-background website volunteer, KENNY SALAZAR, looking appropriately furtive:

THANKS Kenny for making this all happen. But the Festival ride is just beginning.  Stick around.