Quiet but interesting morning at the South Padre Island Convention Center.
Regards and good birding,
Tim Brush
Edinburg, TX
South Padre Is.--WBC/Conv. Center/Laguna Madre Trail (LTC 035), Cameron, Texas,
US Nov 11, 2016 8:10 AM - 9:13 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.2 mile(s)
Comments: around convention center mostly,with extension onto
boardwalks--upper 60s, light rain, N 10-20--bay all the way up to edge
31 species
Mottled Duck 3
Redhead 20
Brown Pelican 12 at least 6 foraging in shallow water over what are
normally mudflats
Great Blue Heron 3 one flies low overhead and squawks when I pish
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 1
Little Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 1
Reddish Egret 50 about 50--all dark--heading S, perhaps toward South Bay
Common Gallinule 1
American Coot 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1 heard only
Caspian Tern 8 foraging low over flooded mudflats--some calling
Royal Tern 1
Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon) 8
Eurasian Collared-Dove 3
Black-chinned Hummingbird 1 feamle plumage--very long bill, dull crown
Belted Kingfisher 1 heard only
American Kestrel 1 over parking lot on way out
White-eyed Vireo 1 fresh plumage--in mangroves
House Wren 3
Marsh Wren 2 heard only
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Grey Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
Northern Waterthrush 1 water feature
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 4 adult male in mangroves--others heard only
Indigo Bunting 5 grassy/shrubby edge
Red-winged Blackbird 3
Great-tailed Grackle 1
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