I stopped by the river overlook at Concepcíon Park while I was in the area for my walk yesterday. This overlook gives an excellent view of the confluence of the San Antonio River and San Pedro Creek. Given the amount of rain that had fallen earlier in the day, I wanted to see how the confluence looked with all the storm runoff coming from upstream in both the river and creek watersheds.
The San Antonio River watershed drains much of north central San Antonio. San Pedro Creek with its two primary tributaries, Alazan Creek and Apache Creek, drains much of northwest San Antonio inside Loop 410. The water had receded by at least three feet from the high water mark by the time I arrived at the confluence. The pedestrian bridge over the river would have been under a few feet of water at the height of the storm.
There were numerous snowy egrets flying over the river. And there was one very busy scissor-tailed flycatcher catching all the flying insects the storm had disturbed:
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| San Pedro Creek |
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| San Antonio River |
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