[texbirds] Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park's Bird Walks & Hawk Watch 03/20
- From: "Melissa Chadwick" <Melissa.Chadwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:06:18 -0500
Good evening Texbirders,
Below is a combined list of birds seen today during the Hawk Watch, the morning
Bird Walk, and an afternoon Nature Tour. Signs of spring migration were
evident during the Hawk Watch with over 120 Swainson's Hawk counted and several
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers were seen gracefully flying by the Hawk Tower.
Highlights for the day include close looks at a Zone-tailed Hawk from the Hawk
Tower, an Elf Owl spotted in a tree cavity off the Kiskadee Trail across from
the Kiskadee Blind, a White-tailed Kite hovering across from the Kingfisher
Overlook, and hearing the call of the Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet near the
Nature Center as well as on Kiskadee Trail. See below for a complete list of
birds seen today.
Species
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Plain Chachalaca
Pied-billed Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Anhinga
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Harris's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Zone-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Mourning Dove
White-tipped Dove
Inca Dove
Rock Pigeon
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Great Kiskadee
Couch's Kingbird
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Crested Caracara
Merlin
Eastern Screech-Owl
Elf Owl
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Green Jay
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cave Swallow
Black-crested Titmouse
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Verdin
Carolina Wren
Clay-colored Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Curve-billed Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher
Orange-crowned Warbler
Olive Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Altamira Oriole
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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
Sundays
Bird Walk 8:30a - 10:30a
Wednesdays
Bird Walk 8:30a - 10:30a
Nature Tour 2-4p *Pre-registration required
Thursdays
Dragonfly Walk 1-3p
Butterfly Walk 3-4p
Saturdays
Creatures of the Night 7-9p *Pre-registration required
Hawk Watch
Tuesday-Sunday 9a-12p
"Use the talents you posses; for the woods would be very silent if no birds
sang except the best."
Henry Van Dyke
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