Hi, all!
None of my pictures really came out, so no Facebook today, but we traveled
down Weaver Road and the Progresso Sod Farms in search of "grasspipers" -
along Weaver we had lots of Horned Larks close, plus a couple of flyover
Upland Sandpipers, and ONE distant American Golden Plover, along with a pair
of White-tailed Kites and a male Harrier sitting in the field. Had a nice
family of Harris' Hawks heading over to Cannon Road to search for the
reported Aplomado Falcon; no luck there, but cruising the dike along Adams
Garden Reservoir (which was relatively birdless) we had Soras, Marsh Wrens,
and Yellowthroats in the reeds. Picked up the regular woodland birds
heading down Cannon (one car had a Northern Parula and a couple of
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers), but a pair of Common Ground Doves was
especially nice! Over at the Progresso Farm we finally found a field on the
east side of the road with about 12 Golden Plovers and a Long-billed Curlew!
Further down just short of the levee we had a Peregrine Falcon give us a
show, along with about seven White Pelicans flying around! Wrapped up with
57 species for the morning (folks in the other cars may have seen things I
missed.).
Bird list:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
Great Egret Ardea alba
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Cattle Egret
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus
Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
Sora Porzana carolina
American Coot Fulica americana
American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
Rock Pigeon Columba livia
White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
American Kestrel Falco sparverius
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Black-crested Titmouse Baeolophus atricristatus
Verdin Auriparus flaviceps
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii
Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Northern Parula
Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus
Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
57 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
Alamo, TX
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