Binoculars and spotting scopes. Worldwide birding trips.  Clothing, pictures, paintings, and beautiful jewelry all sporting birds, birds and more birds.  Cities from across South Texas had booths with naturalists and marketers vieing for every birder’s attention.  It was a fun walk through.  A raptor recovery group showed a group of fantastic birds: golden and bald eagles, screech, snowy, and eagle owls, falcons and the lovely turkey vulture.  The talons and beak of a Golden Eagle just a foot or two from my face set my heart racing just a bit.