I thought you might like a bird report from Del Rio Christmas Bird count. Highlights include a goldeneye, 3 Pine Warblers, Great Kiskadees, and Couch's kingbird. Georgina Schwartz San ANtonio ----- > Del Rio city, Val Verde, US-TX > Dec 29, 2013 8:15 AM - 4:00 PM > Protocol: Traveling > 27.4 mile(s) > Comments: With Eva Fromme > Did the cemetery, las cienagas, and duck ponds, Rio Grande Road, > Frontera Rd > Conditions: 48 degrees, dense fog.to start. Windy by afternoon. > 58 species > > Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 14 > Gadwall 9 > Ring-necked Duck 2 > Common Goldeneye 1 Seen in the River with scope . > Strange-shaped head with strange white spot on the face. Looked it > up in my Golden Guide and determined it to be a goldeneye. > Wild Turkey 45 at the ball fields > Least Grebe 1 seen at the duck pond > Double-crested Cormorant 28 > American White Pelican 3 seen at the pond at the bridge on La > cienegas Rd > Great Blue Heron 1 > Great Egret 3 > Snowy Egret 2 > Black Vulture 5 > Turkey Vulture 2 > Osprey 1 at the ball fields > Red-shouldered Hawk 2 > Red-tailed Hawk 2 > American Coot 59 > Killdeer 23 > Greater Yellowlegs 1 heard at a pond along the Rio Grande Road > Ring-billed Gull 235 > Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 18 > Eurasian Collared-Dove 13 > White-winged Dove 32 > Mourning Dove 51 > Inca Dove 2 > Golden-fronted Woodpecker 17 > Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1 > American Kestrel 4 > Black Phoebe 3 > Eastern Phoebe 1 > Vermilion Flycatcher 6 > Great Kiskadee 12 5 at the sewer ponds and several more along > the Rio Grande Road. > I don't think this is unusual. > Couch's Kingbird 1 heard it , wrote it up and gave it to > Gleason > Blue-headed Vireo 1 > Black-crested Titmouse 4 > Verdin 1 > Carolina Wren 1 > Bewick's Wren 3 > Cactus Wren 1 > Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 > Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 > Eastern Bluebird 20 > Long-billed Thrasher 1 > Northern Mockingbird 22 > European Starling 91 > Orange-crowned Warbler 1 > Pine Warbler 3 wrote these up > 2 along Rio Grande Road, 1 in the brush at Frontera and Las Salas > Yellow-rumped Warbler 21 > Chipping Sparrow 4 > Lark Sparrow 7 > Lincoln's Sparrow 5 > White-crowned Sparrow 30 > Northern Cardinal 24 > Pyrrhuloxia 1 > Red-winged Blackbird 122 > Great-tailed Grackle 208 > House Finch 4 > House Sparrow 48 > > View this checklist online at > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16289475 > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 > (http://ebird.org) 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