[texbirds] Delta Lake, 12/21/12

From: antshrike1@xxxxxxx
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:32:26 -0500 (EST)
I spent all day yesterday birding Delta Lake and the adjacent lakeside 
community as part of the La Sal Vieja CBC.  Because of the continuing drought, 
lake levels on the east side of FM 88 are very low, opening up lots of walkable 
mudflats.  I was able to find all of the recent local rarities including the 
two Reddish Egrets, an amazing 16 Dunlin, four Franklin's Gulls and a 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.  The south end of the lake provided an amazing 
spectacle of ducks and shorebirds (amazing for Hidalgo County).  I accessed the 
area by walking through the dead flattened cattails east of the pavilion at the 
north end of the county park.  Park maintenance workers told me they were 
working on a trail though the cattails but I couldn't find it.  As usual a 
scope makes all the difference.


Delta Lake (LTC 008), Hidalgo, US-TX
Dec 21, 2012 7:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Walking lake shore and Delta Lake community
90 species

Greater White-fronted Goose  190
Snow Goose  2000
Ross's Goose  3
Gadwall  32
Mallard  3
Mottled Duck  70
Blue-winged Teal  4
Northern Shoveler  100
Northern Pintail  400
Green-winged Teal  6
Canvasback  1
Ring-necked Duck  12
Lesser Scaup  1300
Bufflehead  2
Ruddy Duck  25
Eared Grebe  1
Neotropic Cormorant  80
Double-crested Cormorant  100
Anhinga  2
American White Pelican  40
Great Blue Heron  10
Great Egret  15
Snowy Egret  15
Reddish Egret  2     present for some time
Black-crowned Night-Heron  60
Roseate Spoonbill  12
Black Vulture  50
Turkey Vulture  100
Osprey  2
Northern Harrier  2
White-tailed Hawk  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
American Coot  20
Sandhill Crane  270
Black-bellied Plover  7
Killdeer  66
American Avocet  27
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Solitary Sandpiper  1
Greater Yellowlegs  12
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Long-billed Curlew  299
Western Sandpiper  7
Least Sandpiper  1020
Dunlin  16
Long-billed Dowitcher  49
Laughing Gull  50
Franklin's Gull  4
Ring-billed Gull  60
Caspian Tern  1
Eurasian Collared-Dove  7
Mourning Dove  77
Inca Dove  16
Common Ground-Dove  5
White-tipped Dove  1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker  17
Ladder-backed Woodpecker  4
Crested Caracara  10
American Kestrel  2
Peregrine Falcon  1
Eastern Phoebe  8
Vermilion Flycatcher  2
Great Kiskadee  12
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher  1
White-eyed Vireo  1
Green Jay  1
Tree Swallow  50
Black-crested Titmouse  4
House Wren  7
Marsh Wren  6
Carolina Wren  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  12
Northern Mockingbird  5
Long-billed Thrasher  1
European Starling  4
American Pipit  1
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Orange-crowned Warbler  30
Common Yellowthroat  42
Pine Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  69
Yellow-throated Warbler  6
Savannah Sparrow  2
Lincoln's Sparrow  8
Swamp Sparrow  13
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  140
Western Meadowlark  8
Great-tailed Grackle  25


Dan Jones, Weslaco

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