Nice morning for John and me at Santa Ana NWR, as we did our May survey of points for our study. We ended up covering probably about half the trail network between the two of us. Migration is really winding down, except for flycatchers, but breeding bird are quite active. Regards and good birding, Tim (and John) Brush Edinburg, TX Santa Ana NWR (LTC 059), Hidalgo, US-TX May 15, 2014 6:45 AM - 10:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 9.5 mile(s)--includes driving and walking 46 species (+1 other taxa) Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 5 Plain Chachalaca 84 Turkey Vulture 5 Harris's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Grey Hawk (Grey-backed) 3 White-winged Dove 162 Mourning Dove 8 Common Ground-Dove 8 White-tipped Dove 30 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 14 Greater Roadrunner 1 Groove-billed Ani 2 Ringed Kingfisher 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 35 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 13 Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 4 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Alder Flycatcher 1 (singing) Least Flycatcher 1 (singing) Empidonax sp. 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Brown-crested Flycatcher 22 Great Kiskadee 1 Tropical Kingbird 2 Couch's Kingbird 22 White-eyed Vireo 9 Green Jay 5 Black-crested Titmouse 15 Verdin 1 Carolina Wren 10 Bewick's Wren 2 Clay-colored Thrush 2 Long-billed Thrasher 20 Northern Mockingbird 22 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 3 Yellow Warbler 1 Olive Sparrow 47 (from points alone) Northern Cardinal 26 Red-winged Blackbird 3 Great-tailed Grackle 1 Bronzed Cowbird 12 male Bronzed hovered near female Brown-headed perched on low snag--she pecked at him a couple times when he got too close, but then he followed her away anyhow! Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Lesser Goldfinch 3 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18402080 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/tx) Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner