Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. Elsa Hull spends a lot of time in the San Ygnacio Bird and Butterfly Sanctuary, a small county park that abuts the Rio Grande about 35 miles south of Laredo. The park is nothing special—a two-acre patch of scrub, dirt, and trees: mesquite, cedar, hackberry, and retama. But the birds love it—hundreds of species live in and migrate through the preserve because of the river, the terrain, the climate. Every morning Hull, 58, brings her water bottle and a sandwich and sits in the shade on a bluff above the park, looking down the slope toward the river. Hull—wiry and alert, with dyed purple hair under her…
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