Williams Wildlife Sanctuary

     Williams Wildlife Sanctuary is no longer open to the public for reasons that are beyond our control.  We hope that those people who have visited our one acre sanctuary have been encouraged to create one of your own.  

     The sanctuary was created by Allen Williams owner of Williams Wildscapes, a full service design-installation landscaping company that promotes the use of native plants and trees in residential, commercial, and park landscapes.  We believe that our ability to design and install bird and butterfly habitats is unique.  

    We also design and install ponds and water features that enhance your native landscape, and offer wildlife water.  We know that by increasing the number of native plants and trees, as well as providing water sources that wildlife thrive! 

     Since October of 2002 we have had many birders visit our restoration project to see the rare birds that it has attracted.  Our first rare bird, a Blue Mockingbird was seen in October 2002.   This bird was a regular visitor through January of 2005.  
    
    On March 12, 2003 a group of excited birders were waiting to see the Blue Mockingbird when a Slate-throated Redstart appeared in the Mesquites. Ninety-one fortunate people from 17 states came to view this first species for the Rio Grande Valley, which only stayed for two days.  
    
    Then an extraordinary event happened on May 28, 2004.  Rob and Sev Bates were visiting from Leander, Texas with the hope of seeing the Blue Mockingbird.  Rob,  an experienced birder, knew that he saw an unusual tropical bird with a bright orange eye-ring and bright orange legs.   He was the first person to see and accurately identify a Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush, a bird never before documented in North America. 
     
    A Blue Bunting, Rose-throated Becard, Flame-colored Tanager as well as Crimson-collared Grosbeaks have also been drawn to this habitat. Another tropical species, the White-throated Robin has been our most recent visitor first spotted on March 18, 2008.  Sightings of these rare birds mixed in with plentiful valley specialties on our city sanctuary is a testament to the avian desires & needs of water features and a diversified  habitat of plants, shrubs and trees.  It is an enhancement to our lives!  

     We encourage you to become a steward of your own native habitat project.

                                                                   The Williams Family

1 Cor 3:8 "The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor."