[texbirds] Black-throated Green Warbler at Big Bend, 6/24/13
- From: antshrike1@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:04:46 -0400 (EDT)
I decided it was my turn to run up to Big Bend to tick the Flame-colored
Tanager so I raced up on Sunday. I started on the Pinnacles trail head at 5:30
Monday morning and reached the tanager spot in Boot Canyon past the Juniper
trail head in three hours. (The ten mile round trip is not to be taken
lightly. Had I not been doing lots of walking and time on the elliptical
trainer lately, I don't know it I would have made it. I was very sore
afterwards.) I immediately heard a tanager song and was looking at the
Flame-colored Tanager withing a couple of minutes. Both the female Western and
male Flame-colored Tanagers were singing. The songs are quite similar and not
unlike the more common Hepatic Tanagers.
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n610/antshrike/zFlame-coloredTanagerBigBend5-24-13IMG_6395_zpsc222b44b.jpg
A bonus for me was a scruffy male Magnificent Hummingbird at the tanager spot
which was chasing a couple of Selasphorus hummers that looked too bright to be
Broad-tails.
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n610/antshrike/zMagnificentHummingbirdBigBend6-24-13IMG_6559_zps36edaf5d.jpg
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n610/antshrike/zSelasphorusBigBend6-24-13IMG_6555_zps1b34f5b2.jpg
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n610/antshrike/zSelasphorusBigBend6-24-13IMG_6486_zps994a3389.jpg
I also saw at least six Painted Redstarts and eight Colima Warblers. The real
surprise was what I am calling a Black-throated Green Warbler at the tanager
spot. At first I thought it was a Golden-cheeked cuz I thought the brief
glimpse of the back was dark gray, but I think the cheek patch points to
Black-throated Green. I head a chip note that didn't sound like Black-throated
Green either but it may have come from the nearby Colima. Any opinions?
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n610/antshrike/zBlack-throatedGreenWarblerBigBend6-24-13IMG_6603_zpsebe2072b.jpg
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n610/antshrike/zBlack-throatedGreenWarblerBigBend6-24-13IMG_6608_zps2699334d.jpg
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n610/antshrike/zBlack-throatedGreenWarblerBigBend6-24-13IMG_6609_zps0a323c36.jpg
The next morning I hobbled down the Window trail expecting to tick Lucifer
Hummingbird for the year. I didn't find one but picked up two surprise Crissal
Thrashers instead along with Varied Buntings. It was really slow. Afterwards
I was too sore, hot and tired to do any more so I went home.
http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n610/antshrike/zCrissalThrasherBigBend6-24-13IMG_6940_zps2e794a12.jpg
Checklists are below. I'll put some more pics on my Flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58723772@N07/sets/72157634346283195/
Big Bend, Pinnacles Trail and Boot Canyon, Brewster, US-TX
Jun 24, 2013 5:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
10.0 mile(s)
Comments: Hiked up Pinnacles trail from cabins to Boot Springs and up past
Juniper trail head and back
28 species (+1 other taxa)
Turkey Vulture 1
Band-tailed Pigeon 2
White-throated Swift 6
Magnificent Hummingbird 1
Blue-throated Hummingbird 2
Black-chinned Hummingbird 3
Selasphorus sp. 2
Acorn Woodpecker 4
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2
Western Wood-Pewee 2
Cordilleran Flycatcher 2
Ash-throated Flycatcher 2
Hutton's Vireo 6
Mexican Jay 6
Common Raven 1
Black-crested Titmouse 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Canyon Wren 6
Bewick's Wren 15
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5
Colima Warbler 8
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Painted Redstart 6
Spotted Towhee 5
Black-chinned Sparrow 1
Hepatic Tanager 6
Western Tanager 1
Flame-colored Tanager 1
Black-headed Grosbeak 6
Big Bend NP--Window Trail, Brewster, US-TX
Jun 25, 2013 7:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
21 species
Scaled Quail 2
Turkey Vulture 2
White-winged Dove 3
Black-chinned Hummingbird 2
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Ash-throated Flycatcher 6
Mexican Jay 6
Black-crested Titmouse 3
Canyon Wren 2
Cactus Wren 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Northern Mockingbird 3
Crissal Thrasher 2
Rufous-crowned Sparrow 3
Canyon Towhee 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Pyrrhuloxia 1
Blue Grosbeak 2
Varied Bunting 2
Scott's Oriole 4
House Finch 1
Dan Jones, Weslaco
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