Hi Texbirders...a great morning at the refuge! Our highest species count yet, even with some missing common species. Our highlights: 10 shorebird species including AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER, most at Pintail #3. GREEN KINGFISHER, VERMILLION FLYCATCHER, SORA at Pintail #1. 4 swallow species including BARN SWALLOW. NORTHERN-BEARDLESS TYRANNULET and CLAY-COLORED THRUSH around the Chachalaca Trail. Join us tomorrow at 8:30AM. We will present a free program this Saturday, March 8th at 2:00PM..."Birding Adventures in Australia". Mark & Joanie Hubinger USFWS Volunteers Santa Ana NWR Alamo, Texas Santa Ana NWR (LTC 059), Hidalgo, US-TX Mar 6, 2014 8:45 AM - 11:45 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Morning Bird Walk 68 species Gadwall X Mottled Duck X Blue-winged Teal X Cinnamon Teal 1 Northern Shoveler X Northern Pintail 3 Green-winged Teal X Ring-necked Duck 12 Plain Chachalaca X Pied-billed Grebe 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 12 White-faced Ibis 12 Turkey Vulture X White-tailed Kite 1 Northern Harrier 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Harris's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Sora 2 Common Gallinule 1 American Coot 12 Black-necked Stilt 40 American Golden-Plover 3 Killdeer 6 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 8 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Least Sandpiper 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 60 Wilson's Snipe 1 Mourning Dove X Inca Dove X Common Ground-Dove 2 White-tipped Dove X Green Kingfisher 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker X Ladder-backed Woodpecker X Crested Caracara 1 American Kestrel 1 Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1 Eastern Phoebe 4 Vermilion Flycatcher 1 Great Kiskadee X White-eyed Vireo 3 Green Jay X Northern Rough-winged Swallow X Tree Swallow X Barn Swallow 1 Cave Swallow X Black-crested Titmouse X House Wren 1 Carolina Wren X Bewick's Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Clay-colored Thrush 1 Long-billed Thrasher 2 Orange-crowned Warbler X Common Yellowthroat X Olive Sparrow X Swamp Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal X Red-winged Blackbird X Western Meadowlark X Great-tailed Grackle X Altamira Oriole 1 House Sparrow X View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17333351 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