Hi, all! Had a very blessed Christmas outing today around Hidalgo County from pre-dawn to dusk, logging a total of 122 species! Highlights include a pair of Wood Ducks at the main resaca at Bentsen SP, a splendid Gray Hawk at Santa Ana, a mob of friendly Chachalacas wanting to be fed (also at Santa Ana), three Muscovy Ducks heading upriver as seen from the Old Military Hwy levee (probably feral, but they had no "domestic" plumage characters), two Peregrines (one at the Riverside Club and the other at Willow Lakes), Estero's Cinnamon Teals, a beautiful Krider's Hawk along US 281, a Sprague's Pipit at otherwise empty Sugarhouse Pond, a Merlin and the Vermilion Flycatcher pair at Delta Lake Park, 100 Sandhill Cranes right overhead at the Rio Beef Feedyards, and the 11th hour White-tailed Hawk literally in the dusk along Laguna Seca Road! Pictures, sounds, and the blow-by-blow will eventually be up on my blog; I'll post a note to that effect when it happens... Bird List: Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons Snow Goose Chen caerulescens Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata Wood Duck Aix sponsa Gadwall Anas strepera Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata Northern Pintail Anas acuta Green-winged Teal Anas crecca Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Anhinga Anhinga anhinga American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias Great Egret Ardea alba Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea White Ibis Eudocimus albus Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja Black Vulture Coragyps atratus Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura Osprey Pandion haliaetus White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus White-tailed Hawk Geranoaetus albicaudatus Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus Gray Hawk Buteo plagiatus Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis Sora Porzana carolina Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata American Coot Fulica americana Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus American Avocet Recurvirostra americana Killdeer Charadrius vociferus Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica Rock Pigeon Columba livia Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura Inca Dove Columbina inca Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina White-tipped Dove Leptotila verreauxi Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus Common Pauraque Nyctidromus albicollis Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway American Kestrel Falco sparverius Merlin Falco columbarius Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus Monk Parakeet Myiopsitta monachus Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva 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 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos European Starling Sturnus vulgaris American Pipit Anthus rubescens Sprague's Pipit Anthus spragueii Orange-crowned Warbler Oreothlypis celata Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater Altamira Oriole Icterus gularis Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria American Goldfinch Spinus tristis House Sparrow Passer domesticus 122 SPECIES Mary Beth Stowe McAllen, TX _www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/) Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner