Good Morning Texbirders, Our morning birdwalk produces the following highlights: GROOVE-BILLED ANI...5 seen between Pintail # 6 & 7 (dry ponds), a singing NORTHERN-BEARDLESS TYRANNULET, MERLIN, CLAY-COLORED THRUSH at feeders, and an interesting Empidonax flycatcher along the service road to Pintail Lakes. Come join us Thursdays through Tuesdays for birdwalks at 8:30 AM and enjoy your National Wildlife Refuge! Mark & Joanie Hubinger USFWS Volunteers Santa Ana NWR Alamo, Texas Santa Ana NWR (LTC 059), Hidalgo, US-TX Jan 9, 2014 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.5 mile(s) Comments: morning bird walk 54 species (+1 other taxa) Gadwall 4 Mottled Duck 10 Blue-winged Teal X Northern Shoveler X Northern Pintail 4 Green-winged Teal X Plain Chachalaca X Least Grebe 1 White-faced Ibis 1 Turkey Vulture 1 White-tailed Kite 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Harris's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Black-necked Stilt 25 Killdeer 1 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Solitary Sandpiper 3 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Least Sandpiper 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 12 Wilson's Snipe 2 Mourning Dove 1 Inca Dove 2 White-tipped Dove 8 Groove-billed Ani 3 all black, long tail, large "parrot" bill with grooves, seen through scope Golden-fronted Woodpecker X Ladder-backed Woodpecker X Merlin 1 Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1 Empidonax sp. 1 brief look, greenish back, yellowish underparts , tail seemed longer than Least Flycatcher, eyering present, however too brief a look to tell size/shape of eyering Eastern Phoebe 5 Great Kiskadee X White-eyed Vireo 3 Green Jay X Cave Swallow X Black-crested Titmouse 4 Carolina Wren 4 Bewick's Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Clay-colored Thrush 1 Long-billed Thrasher 2 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling X Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 8 Olive Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird X Great-tailed Grackle X Altamira Oriole 1 House Sparrow X View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S16305255 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