[texbirds] Resaca de la Palma State Park - Friday Sightings and Summer Hours

From: Sherry Wilson <rollingsoles@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:53:08 -0600

There were plenty of active young birds in the park this morning.
Long-billed Thrashers, Couch's Kingbirds, Kiskadees, White-eyed Vireos,
Cardinals and Olive Sparrows are some of the recently fledged species
you're likely to find here.  Others, like the Least Bittern, are still
nesting (at last view the eggs had not hatched).  This morning I had a 6 AM
start, thus the Pauraque and Screech Owls on the list below.  The morning
stayed overcast and was quite pleasant for birding up until around 11 AM.

Saturday morning should be partly cloudy and great birding weather.  Hope
you'll come join us on the Bird Walk.

Also, a reminder that now June has arrived the Visitor Center is open and
the Nature Tram operating Thursday through Sunday.
-- 
Sherry Wilson
Resident Park Host
Resaca de la Palma State Park
1000 New Carmen Road
Brownsville, TX  78521
956-350-2920

Bird Walks every Saturday - 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Butterfly Walks every Sunday - 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Night Hikes every Friday (must RSVP by 5:00 p.m. Thurs)  - small fee
Nature Tram Rides - Thursday thru Sunday

http://www.facebook.com/resacadelapalma

DIRECTIONS:  The main entrance to Resaca de la Palma State Park is located
on New Carmen Blvd. From Expressway 77/83, exit at Olmito, take FM 1732,
follow for 2.5 miles; turn left at New Carmen Road; follow for 1.5 miles;
shortly after the gravel hump in the road, turn left to enter the park.

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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck  7
Mottled Duck  2
Plain Chachalaca  12
Neotropic Cormorant  5
Least Bittern  3
Great Blue Heron   2
Great Egret  2
Green Heron  4
White Ibis  2
Black Vulture  3
Turkey Vulture  1
White-tailed Kite  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Crested Caracara  1
Common Gallinule  4
Laughing Gull   3
White-winged Dove  19
Mourning Dove  18
Common Ground-Dove  3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  7
Greater Roadrunner   1
Groove-billed Ani  7
Eastern Screech-Owl   2
Common Pauraque   5
Buff-bellied Hummingbird  1
Green Kingfisher  1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker  3
Ladder-backed Woodpecker  2
Brown-crested Flycatcher  2
Myiarchus sp.  5
Great Kiskadee  7
Couch's Kingbird  6
Tropical/Couch's Kingbird  4
White-eyed Vireo  3
Green Jay  5
Black-crested Titmouse  5
Verdin  5
Carolina Wren  3
Northern Mockingbird  12
Long-billed Thrasher  6
Common Yellowthroat  2
Olive Sparrow  8
Northern Cardinal  7
Blue Grosbeak   1
Painted unting   1
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Great-tailed Grackle  118
Bronzed Cowbird  9
Altamira Oriole  1

[texbirds] Resaca de la Palma State Park - Friday Sightings and Summer Hours

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