Nice birding in the refuge this morning with 65 species seen including 10 duck species, the new duck being a female BUFFLEHEAD, not common here. Along the Chachalaca Trail, 4 COMMON PAURAQUE were found, 2 CLAY-COLORED THRUSH were singing, along with a singing NORTHERN-BEARDLESS TYRANNULET. The GRAY HAWK was again seen along the levee by Visitor's Center both going out and coming back from our walk. We'll be at it again tomorrow at 8:30AM, so come out and join us! Mark & Joanie Hubinger USFWS Volunteers Santa Ana NWR Alamo, Texas Santa Ana NWR (LTC 059), Hidalgo, US-TX Feb 21, 2014 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Morning Bird Walk 65 species (+1 other taxa) Gadwall X American Wigeon 2 Mottled Duck 2 Blue-winged Teal X Cinnamon Teal 1 Northern Shoveler X Northern Pintail 1 Green-winged Teal X Ring-necked Duck 1 Bufflehead 1 Plain Chachalaca X Least Grebe 2 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Great Egret 3 White-faced Ibis 5 Turkey Vulture X White-tailed Kite 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Harris's Hawk 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Gray Hawk 1 Sora 2 American Coot 1 Black-necked Stilt 25 Killdeer 2 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 8 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Wilson's Snipe 1 Mourning Dove 2 Inca Dove X Common Ground-Dove 2 White-tipped Dove 3 Common Pauraque 4 along Chachalaca Trail Belted Kingfisher 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker X Ladder-backed Woodpecker X American Kestrel 1 Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1 heard Eastern Phoebe 2 Great Kiskadee X White-eyed Vireo 6 Green Jay X Tree Swallow X Black-crested Titmouse X House Wren 2 Carolina Wren X Bewick's Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Clay-colored Thrush 2 Long-billed Thrasher 4 Northern Mockingbird 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1 Olive Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird X Eastern Meadowlark 2 Eastern/Western Meadowlark X Great-tailed Grackle 2 Altamira Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow X View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17126735 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