Another warm and humid walk at Santa Ana, but lots going on.
Regards,
Tim Brush
Edinburg, TX
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From: <ebird-checklist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:15 AM
Subject: eBird Report - Santa Ana NWR (LTC 059), Jun 19, 2015
To: txbrush5@xxxxxxxxx
Santa Ana NWR (LTC 059), Hidalgo, Texas, US
Jun 19, 2015 7:03 AM - 9:52 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: mostly sunny, very humid, and still--Chachalaca Trail to
Willow, around to old hq and back to vis. ctr. reversing this route
39 species
Plain Chachalaca 12
Least Bittern 1 heard at Willow 5--wak-wak-wak-wak-wak in cattails
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 1
Killdeer 1
Common Ground-Dove 3
White-tipped Dove 5
White-winged Dove 35
Mourning Dove 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5
Groove-billed Ani 6 family group (full-grown young feeding on their
own in low vine tangle near old hq) plus a few others
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 1
Green Kingfisher 2 Willow 3
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 20
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2
Brown-crested Flycatcher 10
Great Kiskadee 6
Tropical Kingbird 2 at nest in dead cedar elm--plus saw 2 small young
poking their heads up
Couch's Kingbird 22
White-eyed Vireo 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Black-crested Titmouse 6
Verdin 1
Carolina Wren 6
Clay-colored Thrush 4
Long-billed Thrasher 8
Northern Mockingbird 2
Common Starling 1
Common Yellowthroat 2 heard 2 singing at Willow
Olive Sparrow 12
Northern Cardinal 3
Dickcissel 2 singing males around Willow and extreme western Pintail
Red-winged Blackbird 5 includes 2 recent fledglings at boundary
between Willow 2 and 3
Great-tailed Grackle 6
Bronzed Cowbird 5
Hooded Oriole 2 male along Chachalaca Trail; calls and flies toward
Willow--female at Willow 1/2 boundary
Altamira Oriole 3 at least 2 juvs. foraging together along Chachalaca
Trail--plus 3rd possible juv.
Lesser Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 5
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