Here is the list of birds that have been seen at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge this past week. Please feel free to come visit us anytime & join our programs/walks! Species: Harris's Hawk Golden-fronted Woodpecker Great Kiskadee Black-crested Titmouse Altamira Oriole Mottled Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Plain Chachalaca Least Grebe Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Snowy Egret Roseate Spoonbill Turkey Vulture White-tailed Kite Cooper's Hawk Accipiter sp. Red-shouldered Hawk Gray Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Sora Common Gallinule American Coot Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Common Ground-Dove White-tipped Dove Common Pauraque Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird Buff-bellied Hummingbird Ringed Kingfisher Ladder-backed Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Couch's Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Green Jay Northern Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow Barn Swallow Cave Swallow Verdin Marsh Wren Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Ruby-crowned Kinglet Northern Mockingbird Long-billed Thrasher European Starling Common Yellowthroat Olive Sparrow Northern Cardinal Dickcissel Red-winged Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Programs for October 2012: Tuesdays- Wildlife Photography Walks 9am Wednesdays- Butterfly Walks 10am Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays- Weekly Bird Walks 8:30am Nature Trams- Saturdays at 9:30am Texas Nature Challenge- Aug 25th-Nov 11/ naturechallenge.tamu.edu Rio Reforestation- Saturday, Oct. 13th, www.fws.gov/refuge/Lower_Rio_Grande_Valley Ayissa Sandoval Public Use Assistant U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Santa Ana NWR 3325 Green Jay Rd Alamo, TX 78516 956.784.7500