[texbirds] Santa Ana Daily Bird Walk, Jan 13, 2013
- From: Tiffany Kersten <tiffanykersten@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 12:10:17 -0600
A cloudy and windy walk today with a couple from Colorado and a man
from Michigan. We walked around Willow Lake and down by the towers in
search of Gray Hawk (today with no luck, though this bird is
semi-regular in the area around the towers, and is seemingly more
predictable later on in the afternoon/evening).
Walks leave the Vistor Center daily at 8:30 am.
Santa Ana NWR (LTC 059), Hidalgo, US-TX
Jan 13, 2013 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
49 species
Greater White-fronted Goose 12 flyover
Gadwall 20
American Wigeon 10
Mottled Duck 20
Blue-winged Teal 8
Cinnamon Teal 2
Northern Shoveler 15
Green-winged Teal 30
Lesser Scaup 2
Hooded Merganser 3 Willow Lake- part of a continuing flock of up
to 7 reported. 3 females
Ruddy Duck 6
Plain Chachalaca 1
Least Grebe 5
Pied-billed Grebe 7
Turkey Vulture 1
Northern Harrier 1
Harris's Hawk 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
American Coot 25
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
White-tipped Dove 2
Green Kingfisher 1 fishing in canal right next to visitor center-
often can be found here or on Pintail Lake
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 8
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3
Eastern Phoebe 1
Vermilion Flycatcher 1- in the area where Pintail can be seen from
the tram road
Great Kiskadee 16
White-eyed Vireo 3
Green Jay 8
Cave Swallow 3
Black-crested Titmouse 7
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
Clay-colored Thrush 1 great looks; comes right to the main
feeding station about 90% of the time when we feed the birds
Northern Mockingbird 2
Long-billed Thrasher 4
European Starling 15
Orange-crowned Warbler 10
Common Yellowthroat 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 15
Olive Sparrow 8
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 6
Red-winged Blackbird 100
Altamira Oriole 2 One nearly always visits feeder when we feed;
the other was off of the northeast part of the tram road.
House Sparrow 20
Tiffany L. Kersten
Visitor Services Specialist
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
3325 Green Jay Road
Alamo, TX 78516
956-784-7500
tiffany_kersten@xxxxxxx
www.facebook.com/SantaAnaNWR
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