[texbirds] Re: Frontera Audubon Thicket, 5/11/12
- From: MiriamEagl@xxxxxxx
- To: antshrike1@xxxxxxx, texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 17:07:42 -0400 (EDT)
Dan's post reminded me that I also had an interesting Catharus thrush at
Frontera Saturday: my gut thought was Veery, but it just looked strange.
Pictures are on the previously-referenced trip report for May 12th (or you
can access it through the website below and follow the Big Year links).
Feedback welcome!
MB
Mary Beth Stowe
McAllen, TX
_www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/)
In a message dated 5/11/2012 1:46:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
antshrike1@xxxxxxx writes:
I got up this morning after last night's storm and racked up ten species
of warblers and a Black-billed Cuckoo in my Weslaco yard before even putting
my shoes on. So I headed over to Frontera Audubon Thicket where migrants
were the most abundant I've seen in several years. Not a lot of diversity,
only 14 species of warblers, but lots of birds. It was a good day to
practice empid IDs. Best bird was a singing Bell's Vireo.
Frontera Audubon Center, Hidalgo, US-TX
May 11, 2012 9:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
64 species (+2 other taxa)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 3
Plain Chachalaca 10
Green Heron 2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 15
White-tailed Kite 1
Mississippi Kite 1
Gray Hawk 1
White-winged Dove 10
Inca Dove 2
White-tipped Dove 4
Green Parakeet 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Groove-billed Ani 1
Black-chinned Hummingbird 1
Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird 2
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 5
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 4
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 2
Olive-sided Flycatcher 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 10
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 8
Acadian Flycatcher 2
Willow Flycatcher 5
Least Flycatcher 12
Empidonax sp. 10
Great Crested Flycatcher 4
Brown-crested Flycatcher 5
Great Kiskadee 1
Couch's Kingbird 2
White-eyed Vireo 3
Bell's Vireo 1 calling
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Warbling Vireo 2
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Black-crested Titmouse 6
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 1
Swainson's Thrush 1
Clay-colored Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 10
Northern Mockingbird 3
Long-billed Thrasher 3
European Starling 2
Black-and-white Warbler 8
Tennessee Warbler 2
Nashville Warbler 5
MacGillivray's Warbler 1
Mourning Warbler 5
Common Yellowthroat 8
American Redstart 6
Magnolia Warbler 40 probably more
Blackburnian Warbler 2
Yellow Warbler 30
Chestnut-sided Warbler 4
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Canada Warbler 8
Wilson's Warbler 8
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 1
Great-tailed Grackle 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
Orchard Oriole 4
Baltimore Oriole 1
Lesser Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 2
Dan Jones, Weslaco
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