A pleasant morning with almost no wind. Two couples joined me and we birded Pintail. Highlights were a Ringed Kingfisher on Pintail Lake 2 and a Fulvous Whistling-Duck lurking about the cattails in Pintail 1. Bird walks leave the visitor center daily at 8:30 am. Santa Ana NWR- Pintail Lakes Trail, Hidalgo, US-TX Jan 21, 2013 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) 41 species (+1 other taxa) Fulvous Whistling-Duck 1 pintail lake 1 Gadwall 25 Mottled Duck 2 Blue-winged Teal 2 Northern Shoveler 35 Northern Pintail 20 Green-winged Teal 15 Redhead 1 Ring-necked Duck 2 Lesser Scaup 6 Least Grebe 3 Pied-billed Grebe 5 Great Egret 1 White Ibis 1 White-faced Ibis 7 Northern Harrier 1 Harris's Hawk 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 American Coot 30 Black-necked Stilt 15 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs 6 Ringed Kingfisher 1 perched over Pintail Lake 2 American Kestrel 1 Merlin 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Vermilion Flycatcher 1 Great Kiskadee 14 White-eyed Vireo 1 Green Jay 7 Cave Swallow 100 Marsh Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 35 American Pipit 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Olive Sparrow 4 Savannah Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird 200 Altamira Oriole 2 House Sparrow 10 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 Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SantaAnaNWR 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