Here is the list of birds that have been seen at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge for the past few days. Please feel free to come visit us anytime & join our programs/walks! Highlight for yesterday was an immature Northern Jacana spotted by some visitors at Santa Ana NWR(11-3-12). The bird was seen in Pintail Lakes Pond 5. Species: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Mottled Duck Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Ruddy Duck Pied-billed Grebe Anhinga Great Egret White-faced Ibis Roseate Spoonbill Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Harris's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk American Coot Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Ringed Kingfisher Belted Kingfisher Golden-fronted Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker American Kestrel Eastern Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Great Kiskadee Tropical/Couch's Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Black-crested Titmouse House Wren Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Northern Mockingbird Long-billed Thrasher Common Yellowthroat Olive Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Bronzed Cowbird Brown-headed Cowbird Altamira Oriole Green-winged Teal Least Grebe Black-necked Stilt Lesser Yellowlegs Green Jay Bank Swallow Bewick's Wren Redhead Plain Chachalaca Northern Bobwhite Neotropic Cormorant Turkey Vulture Osprey Broad-winged Hawk Gray Hawk Red-tailed Hawk White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove White-tipped Dove Green Kingfisher Merlin White-eyed Vireo Ruby-crowned Kinglet European Starling Orange-crowned Warbler Great-tailed Grackle Lesser Goldfinch House Sparrow Mallard American White Pelican Great Blue Heron White-tailed Kite Sora Solitary Sandpiper Crested Caracara Savannah Sparrow Wilson's Snipe Eurasian Collared-Dove Gray Catbird Programs for November 2012: Tuesdays- Wildlife Photography Walks 9am Wednesdays- Butterfly/Dragonfly Walks 10am Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays- Weekly Bird Walks 8:30am Nature Trams- Saturdays at 9:30am, 12noon, & 2pm Texas Nature Challenge- Aug 25th-Nov 11/ naturechallenge.tamu.edu Ayissa Sandoval Public Use Assistant U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Santa Ana NWR 3325 Green Jay Rd Alamo, TX 78516 956.784.7500 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