Birded for about 1.5 hours at Estero this morning--got some nice looks at
common species.
Regards and good birding,
Tim Brush
Edinburg, TX
Estero Llano Grande SP--Tropical Zone, Hidalgo, Texas, US Sep 3, 2016 8:54 AM -
10:23 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.6 mile(s)
Comments: sunny and near calm, getting warm
25 species (+1 other taxa)
Cooper's Hawk 1 juvenile seen in flight overhead; later chased juvenile
Harris's Hawk for a bit
Harris's Hawk 2 large juvenile and smaller adult (check photos)
White-tipped Dove 1
White-winged Dove 150 mostly in flight overhead
Mourning Dove 6 2 singing
Groove-billed Ani 1 hear-only
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 5
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2 looks like full-grown juvenile male following
adult male and probably getting fed a couple times
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 saw empidonax and heard it give per-wee 3-4 X
Empidonax sp. 1
Brown-crested Flycatcher 2
Great Kiskadee 4
Couch's Kingbird 6 2 give alarm calls when COHA flies over
Green Jay 4 quiet again
Black-crested Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 2 2 unseen singing males-- one in thicket, other on south
edge of tropical zone
Curve-billed Thrasher 2
Northern Mockingbird 3
Common Starling 4
Dickcissel 1 heard-only
Red-winged Blackbird 10 land and forage in Texas ebonies--saw one gaping
into dead leaf clusters, of which there are plenty
Great-tailed Grackle 4
Bronzed Cowbird 10 foraging with RWBLs--watched one--seemed to tearing up
dead-leaf clusters and gleaning
Orchard Oriole 2 heard-only--"heah"
Baltimore Oriole 1 foraging in Texas ebony before blackbirds and cowbirds
got there
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