[texbirds] Big Sit @ Estero Llano Grande SP

  • From: MiriamEagl@xxxxxxx
  • To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 22:00:19 -0400 (EDT)

Hi, all!
 
Joined Huck Hutchins, Mary Gustafson, John Yochum, Kyle (and Sibley)  
O'Haver, the Fullers, and Cheryl and Paul from Houston this morning for the Big 
 
Sit; some highlights while I was there included a big fat American Bittern  
across the way, a small flock of Wood Storks circling overhead, a tiny 
little  Mexican Tree Frog that John found, and Peggy's fabulous lunch spread!  
:-) !  I snuck away for an exercise hike around 8:00 and added a few  things 
to my personal list, the best of which was a couple of Snipe at Dowitcher  
Pond.  When I left the raptors were starting to stream through, with many  
vultures, Swainson's Hawks, and a Peregrine that Terry spotted.  Not  
unexpected was the fact that the butters in the parking lot were way more  
cooperative for photos than the birds were!  I'm sure Huck or someone will  
post the 
final tally, as I had to leave around noon...
 
Photos are posted here:
 
http://miriameaglemon.com/photo_gallery/2013%20Field%20Trips/October/Big%20S
it.html
 
Bird List:
 
  Black-bellied  Whistling-Duck          Dendrocygna  autumnalis
Fulvous  Whistling-Duck                 Dendrocygna bicolor
Mottled  Duck                           Anas fulvigula
Blue-winged  Teal                       Anas discors
Cinnamon  Teal                          Anas cyanoptera
Plain  Chachalaca                       Ortalis vetula
Least  Grebe                            Tachybaptus dominicus
Pied-billed  Grebe                      Podilymbus podiceps
Wood  Stork                             Mycteria americana
Neotropic  Cormorant                    Phalacrocorax brasilianus
American White  Pelican                 Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
American  Bittern                       Botaurus lentiginosus
Least  Bittern                          Ixobrychus exilis
Great  Egret                            Ardea alba
Snowy  Egret                            Egretta thula
Little Blue  Heron                      Egretta caerulea
Tricolored  Heron                       Egretta tricolor
Green  Heron                            Butorides virescens
White  Ibis                             Eudocimus albus
Roseate  Spoonbill                      Platalea ajaja
Black  Vulture                          Coragyps atratus
Turkey  Vulture                         Cathartes aura
Swainson's  Hawk                        Buteo swainsoni
Red-tailed  Hawk                        Buteo jamaicensis
Sora                                   Porzana carolina
Common  Gallinule                       Gallinula galeata
American  Coot                          Fulica americana
Killdeer                               Charadrius vociferus
Least  Sandpiper                        Calidris minutilla
Wilson's  Snipe                         Gallinago delicata
Rock  Pigeon                            Columba livia
Eurasian  Collared-Dove                 Streptopelia decaocto
White-winged  Dove                      Zenaida asiatica
Common  Ground-Dove                     Columbina passerina
Ruby-throated  Hummingbird              Archilochus colubris
Buff-bellied  Hummingbird               Amazilia yucatanensis
Belted  Kingfisher                      Megaceryle alcyon
Golden-fronted  Woodpecker              Melanerpes aurifrons
Ladder-backed  Woodpecker               Picoides scalaris
American  Kestrel                       Falco sparverius
Great  Kiskadee                         Pitangus sulphuratus
White-eyed  Vireo                       Vireo griseus
Green  Jay                              Cyanocorax yncas
Northern Rough-winged  Swallow         Stelgidopteryx  serripennis
Barn  Swallow                           Hirundo rustica
Black-crested  Titmouse                 Baeolophus atricristatus
Carolina  Wren                          Thryothorus ludovicianus
Blue-gray  Gnatcatcher                  Polioptila caerulea
Northern  Mockingbird                   Mimus polyglottos
Curve-billed  Thrasher                  Toxostoma curvirostre
European  Starling                      Sturnus vulgaris
Northern  Cardinal                      Cardinalis cardinalis
Dickcissel                             Spiza americana
Red-winged  Blackbird                   Agelaius phoeniceus
Great-tailed  Grackle                   Quiscalus mexicanus
Brown-headed  Cowbird                   Molothrus ater
House  Sparrow                          Passer domesticus
57 SPECIES

Mary Beth  Stowe
McAllen, TX
_www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/) 


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