[texbirds] Santa Ana Daily Bird Walk, January 21, 2013

  • From: Tiffany Kersten <tiffanykersten@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:29:08 -0600

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

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