BQ5 Ranch & Nature Retreat

BQ5 Ranch & Nature Retreat Nature and Nurture - peaceful and beautiful 706 acre ranch in historic Goliad County with 14 miles of Bring your cameras!

We are a working South Texas ranch with 706-acres dedicated to wildlife habitat and the art of "winding down"... stay in one of our guest houses, enjoy massive numbers of resident and migratory birds, butterfly, dragonfly, hike or bike or horseback ride (bring your own horses) over 14 miles of manicured trails, fish, stargaze on the Stargazer Hill's platform or around the firepit. Photo blinds are

situated around the ranch watering holes for prime wildlife viewing and photographing. When you're ready for something a little more exotic, walk on up to one of our mediterranean miniature donkeys and be prepared to be loved like you've never been before! We maintain a vegetable garden and cutting garden year-round here. Come in the summer and enjoy some of the fresh organic fare including tomatoes, peppers, squash. Fall we have greens galore, broccoli, arugula, onions. Spring brings us potatoes and spinach, lettuces, beets and sometimes other surprises. Note: "Working ranch" means we work - a lot. But we love to visit our guests, bend their ears and show them around. We want you to feel like you're at your own home out here in the countryside. So we encourage you to do whatever it is you want to do even if it's just hang in the hammock or rock on the porch. We understand the meaning and importance of winding down and getting away.

More Wings Rescue Center hawk release photos. Thank you Robin Allaniz for capturing this release in photos.
07/18/2026

More Wings Rescue Center hawk release photos. Thank you Robin Allaniz for capturing this release in photos.

07/18/2026

Video of the hawk release at the ranch.

We hosted our 4th Wings Rescue Center bird release at the ranch today. Three red shouldered hawks were released. We ho...
07/18/2026

We hosted our 4th Wings Rescue Center bird release at the ranch today. Three red shouldered hawks were released. We hope they enjoy their new home.

07/12/2026

Wanted to make sure all our friends saw the story of the hawk rescue of the 3 hawks being released at the Ranch. Thank you Tammie Albrecht for caring and for sharing your story.

One of the many reasons wildlife rehabbers never really “retire.” This is me “retired”
I’m a subpermitted wildlife rehabber, and yesterday I got a call about a baby Red-shouldered Hawk on the ground in our neighborhood. The finder had also discovered a deceased adult hawk in their pool nearby.
When I arrived and inspected the first baby, I could hear two more hawklets crying from a nest about 50 feet up in a tree. The first baby was severely emaciated — no food in his crop and his keel bone was very sharp. I immediately took him in, started fluids, and kept him warm.
I monitored the nest the entire day, watching and hoping for another parent to return and feed the babies, but no adult ever came. Under the nest I also found Great Horned Owl feathers, so there may have been a territorial scuffle. My suspicion is the grounded baby may have been knocked from the nest, and the parent was either injured or taken as prey.
Around 2:00 that afternoon, I went back to check again and the second baby literally jumped out of the nest straight down toward me… like, “Oh good, the bird lady is back!” 🥹
The third baby appeared to be the youngest hatchling. He was terrified, weak, and his little cries became softer and softer as the evening went on.
I had already lined up help from Sal with Sal’s Tree Trimming for the next morning, though I tried hard to get help that same evening with no luck. Early the next morning I returned and at first didn’t see the last baby moving. My heart sank because he had been so weak the day before… then I saw him move.
Happy ending thanks to Sal — my hero — who brought his bucket truck and safely retrieved the last hawklet from the nest. ❤️ All three babies are now warm, hydrated, fed, and safe.
They’ll be headed to Rockport for rehabilitation, where they’ll receive the long-term raptor care they need. As a rehabber, I don’t have the facilities for extended raptor care since they require specialized food and large flight aviaries.
Exhausting couple of days, but these are the moments that make it all worth it.

07/10/2026

Great video on Wings Rescue Center, which is celebrating its 10Th Anniversary. They are the group who will be releasing 3 hawks at the Ranch on July 18.

WE are hosting our 4th Wings Rescue Center rehabbed bird release. This time they will be releasing three juvenile red-s...
07/09/2026

WE are hosting our 4th Wings Rescue Center rehabbed bird release. This time they will be releasing three juvenile red-shouldered hawks. This event is open to anyone. All we ask is that each attendee consider a donation of a minimum of $30.00 to The Wings Rescue Center to support their efforts.

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There is a lot of wildlife food maturing on the Ranch as we head in to summer. The Texas Persimmon trees, Honey mesquit...
06/24/2026

There is a lot of wildlife food maturing on the Ranch as we head in to summer. The Texas Persimmon trees, Honey mesquite trees, and Spiny hackberry are loaded with fruit and beans.

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8212 FM/883
Berclair, TX
78107

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