[texbirds] Cave Swallows and Lark Bunting at King Ranch - Monday, 11/17/14

  • From: Tom Langschied <TLangschied@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 18:02:54 +0000

TexBirders,
Yesterday, I was unable to relocate the Ferruginous Hawk and Audubon's Oriole 
found on Saturday, but did find a nice flock of Cave Swallows (16) and a lone 
Lark Bunting on the Santa Gertrudis Div. of King Ranch in Kleberg County.  Also 
had quite a few more Scissor-tailed Flycatchers (17) than I had on Saturday.  
Given the many  full to half-full ponds and water tanks on this part of the 
ranch we are also finding quite a few Vermilion Flycatchers (9) as well.  
Further below is a full list of the birds  found during the 4.5 hours birding 
on the Santa Gertrudis Div.
Good birding,
Tom Langschied
Kingsville, TX



Birds found on Santa Gertrudis Div., King Ranch on 11/17/14

1.       Gadwall  35

2.       Blue-winged Teal  12

3.       Northern Shoveler  45

4.       Green-winged Teal  8

5.       Redhead  10

6.       Ring-necked Duck  1

7.       Lesser Scaup  8

8.       Ruddy Duck  30

9.       Wild Turkey  7

10.   Least Grebe  8

11.   Pied-billed Grebe  18

12.   Neotropic Cormorant  4

13.   Double-crested Cormorant  3

14.   Great Blue Heron  2

15.   Great Egret  1

16.   Cattle Egret  35

17.   White-faced Ibis  1

18.   Black Vulture  8

19.   Turkey Vulture  9

20.   Northern Harrier  3

21.   Cooper's Hawk  1

22.   White-tailed Hawk  1

23.   Red-shouldered Hawk  2

24.   Red-tailed Hawk  4

25.   Common Gallinule  1

26.   American Coot  30

27.   Sandhill Crane  18

28.   Black-necked Stilt  16

29.   Killdeer  6

30.   Greater Yellowlegs  1

31.   Wilson's Snipe  3

32.   Rock Pigeon  30

33.   Common Ground-Dove  2

34.   White-tipped Dove  1

35.   Mourning Dove  25

36.   Golden-fronted Woodpecker  3

37.   Ladder-backed Woodpecker  1

38.   Crested Caracara  5

39.   American Kestrel  19

40.   Eastern Phoebe  16

41.   Vermilion Flycatcher  9

42.   Great Kiskadee  3

43.   Scissor-tailed Flycatcher  17

44.   Loggerhead Shrike  16

45.   Green Jay  8

46.   Tree Swallow  7

47.   Barn Swallow  1

48.   Cave Swallow  16

49.   Black-crested Titmouse  2

50.   Eastern Bluebird  4

51.   Curve-billed Thrasher  1

52.   Northern Mockingbird  14

53.   European Starling  3

54.   Olive Sparrow  2

55.   Vesper Sparrow  1

56.   Lark Bunting  1

57.   Savannah Sparrow  20

58.   Northern Cardinal  3

59.   Red-winged Blackbird  10

60.   Western Meadowlark  60

61.   Brewer's Blackbird  4

62.   Great-tailed Grackle  130

63.   Brown-headed Cowbird  13


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