- The river banks of Stokes Park at Thompson's Islands on CR 299 offer a wilder, more natural setting on edge of town.
Drive toward Seguin on Hwy 123 (Guadalupe Street). Just east of IH 35, turn immediately after the big flag at Chuck Nash Chevrolet (a sharp left) onto Cape Road (noting the animal shelter sign). Half a mile from Chuck Nash, a large pond on the right offers wintering ground for waterfowl such as ducks, herons, gulls, cormorants, and dowitchers. Great Blue Herons are common.
Drive past the pond, across the San Marcos River, to a the large open space of the Park where Rufous-sided Towhees frequent the area, as do wintering sparrows such as Song, Vesper and Savannah, warblers in tall trees and kinglets, kingfishers, Double-crested Cormorants, Osprey, Kestrels, Red-shouldered and Red-tailed Hawks. Woodpeckers might feed in the tall dead trees.
