[texbirds] Bentsen RGV State Park 5-8-13

From: "Melissa Chadwick" <Melissa.Chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 17:23:05 -0500
Good afternoon,
 

The hotspot is at our headquarter gardens, especially around the
visitor's center.  The Anacua trees are loaded with sweet berries that
the orioles are currently feasting on.  A new Altamira nest and Kiskadee
nest are also in the gardens.  Black Phoebes and Clay-colored Thrush are
often seen around the visitor center collecting bugs on the sidewalks.

 

A Groove-billed Ani was seen this morning from the hawk tower and we
also still have a lot of Wilson's Phalaropes spinning in circles in the
shallow waters below the tower.  See below for a complete list of the
birds seen today.

 

Species

Count

Altamira Oriole

1

Anhinga

1

Baltimore Oriole

3

Bank Swallow

X

Barn Swallow

X

Black Phoebe

2

Black Vulture

2

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

12

Black-crested Titmouse

1

Black-necked Stilt

11

Blue-winged Teal

12

Bronzed Cowbird

13

Brown-crested Flycatcher

5

Buff-bellied Hummingbird

2

Canada Warbler

1

Cave Swallow

4

Chimney Swift

X

Chipping Sparrow

1

Clay-colored Thrush

2

Cliff Swallow

X

Common Yellowthroat

1

Couch's Kingbird

6

Curve-billed Thrasher

1

Dickcissel

1

Eastern Wood-Pewee

1

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

6

Gray Hawk

1

Great Blue Heron

1

Great Egret

1

Great Kiskadee

1

Greater Yellowlegs

X

Great-tailed Grackle

X

Green Jay

15

Groove-billed Ani

1

Hooded Oriole

2

House Sparrow

3

Indigo Bunting

1

Killdeer

2

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

1

Lark Sparrow

2

Lesser Yellowlegs

X

Little Blue Heron

2

Loggerhead Shrike

1

Long-billed Thrasher

1

Mottled Duck

1

Mourning Dove

3

Mourning Warbler

1

Nashville Warbler

1

Neotropic Cormorant

1

Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet

1

Northern Cardinal

7

Northern Mockingbird

10

Northern Shoveler

6

Olive Sparrow

2

Olive-sided Flycatcher

1

Orchard Oriole

8

Painted Bunting

2

Plain Chachalaca

6

Purple Martin

X

Red-winged Blackbird

X

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

1

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

1

Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird

2

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

1

Snowy Egret

9

Tennessee Warbler

2

Turkey Vulture

10

White-eyed Vireo

2

White-faced Ibis

3

White-tipped Dove

3

White-winged Dove

98

Wilson's Phalarope

1

Yellow Warbler

2

Yellow-breasted Chat

1

                
                
                
                
Happy birding!

        
                

 

Thank you,

Melissa Chadwick

Park Naturalist/Volunteer Coordinator

World Birding Center

Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park

2800 South Bentsen Palm Drive 

Mission, TX 78572

melissa.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:melissa.chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

Telephone (956) 584-9156 Ext 228

Fax (956) 584-9126

 

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