Hi, all!
Pat Heirs and I made another run out to Hargill Playa to see if we could
find the reported Sanderling (found two Western Sandpipers instead) and ran
into Jim Hailey, who had just seen the Collared Plover, but he never
reappeared for us (Reddish Egret and female Pintail were still around,
though). So we then went over to south Brushline where after much scrutiny
we DID find the breeding-plumaged Glossy Ibis (he finally slowed down enough
so that I could see his gray face to my satisfaction J), and Pat spotted the
Purple Gallinule out in the open! Also fun was a Peregrine Falcon circling
overhead! Other interesting finds were a female Vermilion Flycatcher at the
ibis spot, and a Solitary Sandpiper in another pond just south of there. A
Yellow-crowned Night Heron on north Brushline was new for my La Sal del Rey
list!
A few photos and a recording of the upset stilts can be seen and listened to
here:
http://miriameaglemon.com/photo_gallery/2015%20Field%20Trips/July/Hargill%20
Part%203.html
.or here:
http://tinyurl.com/oc7dyv9
Bird List:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
Northern Pintail Anas acuta
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
Great Egret Ardea alba
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Green Heron Butorides virescens
Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea
Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus
White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
Purple Gallinule Porphyrio martinicus
Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
American Coot Fulica americana
Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri
Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
Least Tern Sternula antillarum
Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
Black Tern Chlidonias niger
Rock Pigeon Columba livia
Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina
Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus
Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
Purple Martin Progne subis
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Verdin Auriparus flaviceps
Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii
Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus
Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus
Blue Grosbeak Passerina caerulea
Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
Dickcissel Spiza americana
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
78 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
McAllen, TX
www.miriameaglemon.com
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