[texbirds] Delta Lake, 1/2/13

From: antshrike1@xxxxxxx
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 19:41:36 -0500 (EST)
Yesterday I told Mary G. that I was not that worried about keeping a 
competitive Hidalgo County list this year.  But old habits are hard to break 
and a lull in the rain found me up at Delta Lake (north of Weslaco) where I 
found some good county birds.  Walking along the north shore out of the wind I 
found a Sanderling, five Black-bellied Plovers, two Bonaparte's Gulls and a 
Franklin's Gull.  The Reddish Egrets were not around so I tried walking the 
west shore of the east side.  The park people have cut a swath thought the 
cattails from east of the basketball court to the shoreline.  There were tons 
of ducks but the wind was too cold so I retreated.  I'll try again after it 
warms up.


Delta Lake (LTC 008), Hidalgo, US-TX
Jan 2, 2013 12:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
56 species (+1 other taxa)

Snow Goose  12
Mallard  5
Mottled Duck  30
Northern Shoveler  10
Northern Pintail  500
Green-winged Teal  4
Lesser Scaup  1000
Neotropic Cormorant  30
Double-crested Cormorant  30
Anhinga  1
American White Pelican  250
Great Blue Heron  5
Great Egret  5
Snowy Egret  5
Roseate Spoonbill  7
Turkey Vulture  30
Osprey  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Coot  4
Black-bellied Plover  5
Killdeer  10
American Avocet  4
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Sanderling  1
Least Sandpiper  150
Long-billed Dowitcher  50
Bonaparte's Gull  2
Laughing Gull  10
Franklin's Gull  1
Ring-billed Gull  10
Caspian Tern  11
Eurasian Collared-Dove  20
Mourning Dove  1
Common Ground-Dove  2
Golden-fronted Woodpecker  4
Ladder-backed Woodpecker  2
Crested Caracara  2
American Kestrel  1
Eastern Phoebe  2
Vermilion Flycatcher  1
Tree Swallow  50
Marsh Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  5
Orange-crowned Warbler  5
Common Yellowthroat  8
Yellow-rumped Warbler  3
Savannah Sparrow  3
Lincoln's Sparrow  1
Swamp Sparrow  7
Eastern/Western Meadowlark  8
Great-tailed Grackle  500


Dan Jones, Weslaco

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