[texbirds] South Padre Island
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- Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 21:29:52 -0400 (EDT)
Hi, all!
Pat Heirs, Joyce Davidson, and I headed out to the Island this morning for
a last crack at spring migration, and it was gorgeous day with some nice
birds! Highlights at Sheepshead included a singing Bell's Vireo and two
knockout Bay-breasted Warblers, Yellow-breasted Chat, Veery, Black-chinned
Hummingbird (a nice male, my first for the island), and a cooperative
Chestnut-sided Warbler (three Western Tanagers were also seen by others). Pat
spotted a snoozing Common Nighthawk in the mesquite.
At the Convention Centre a late Ruby-crowned Kinglet greeted us, and a
soaring Anhinga was also a first for my SPI list! The trees had lots of
Indigo and Painted Buntings (mostly females but a couple of males as well),
Redstarts, a skulky Ovenbird, Magnolia Warblers, several Rose-breasted
Grosbeaks, Yellow-headed Blackbirds in with the cowbirds, and a Gray-cheeked
Thrush. Several orioles were about including one we assumed was the reported
female Bullock's, but it also showed characteristics of a first-year
Baltimore, so comments are welcome (pictures on the website, see below)!
Out on the "back porch" a group of Wilson's Phalaropes poking around with
some Sanderlings (also a first), a couple of Dunlin, and a Short-billed
Dowitcher. Sharp-eyed Pat found us a Least Bittern on the boardwalk, and
Linda Butcher reported a Blackburnian Warbler that we missed, but we did find
her Eastern Kingbird along with a couple of Westerns, plus a knockout Scarlet
Tanager! A Redhead was pretty late. We also ran into the rest of the
Harlingen contingent of the Birder Patrol consisting of Norma, Cheryle, and
Sue, along with my friend Tony Merceica from San Diego! A Wilson's and
Semipalmated Plover together were nice, but not much on the beach except the
usual (although we did have a fly-by Oystercatcher).
On the way out we stopped along a couple of side roads, where a Willow
Flycatcher was calling.
Pictures of the more cooperative birds and a recording of the Bell's Vireo
are here:
http://miriameaglemon.com/photo_gallery/2014%20Field%20Trips/May/South%20Pad
re%20Island.html
Bird List:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
Redhead Aythya americana
Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis
Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
Great Egret Ardea alba
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens
Green Heron Butorides virescens
White Ibis Eudocimus albus
Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris
Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
American Oystercatcher Haematopus palliatus
Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia
Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
Willet Tringa semipalmata
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Sanderling Calidris alba
Dunlin Calidris alpina
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
Least Tern Sternula antillarum
Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus
Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
Black Skimmer Rynchops niger
Rock Pigeon Columba livia
Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
Inca Dove Columbina inca
Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri
Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens
Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii
Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
Bell's Vireo Vireo bellii
Chihuahuan Raven Corvus cryptoleucus
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula
Veery Catharus fuscescens
Gray-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
Tennessee Warbler Oreothlypis peregrina
Nashville Warbler Oreothlypis ruficapilla
Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia
Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
Yellow-breasted Chat Icteria virens
Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
Scarlet Tanager Piranga olivacea
Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
Dickcissel Spiza americana
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
Hooded Oriole Icterus cucullatus
Bullock's Oriole Icterus bullockii
Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
85 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
McAllen, TX
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