During the height of the state’s birding season, from mid-March through May, visitors from all over the world travel to Texas, particularly Galveston County’s High Island and Bolivar Peninsula. They come to this coastal corner of Texas to witness the high diversity of migratory birds that rest and refuel during their long journeys from Central and South America to their northern breeding grounds. Not surprisingly, the renowned birder and ecotourism pioneer Victor Emanuel—he founded Austin-based Victor Emanuel Nature Tours in 1976—made his second home here. Christened Warbler’s Roost, the buttercup-yellow one-room cottage sat on ten-foot stilts overlooking the Bolivar mudflats and the North Jetty, where tens of thousands of birds congregated and could be observed from the perfectly positioned front porch.Victor, who traced his passion…
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