[texbirds] Fw: eBird Report - Del Rio city, Dec 29, 2013

  • From: "Georgina Schwartz" <gbird@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "texbirds" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 19:53:01 -0600

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
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> 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) 

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