[texbirds] Good RGV birding, aye chihuahua!
- From: Robert Becker <robertjbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 19:54:41 -0800 (PST)
Two days of good birding in the RGV. The highlights:
At Santa Ana Friday: Gray Hawk, Common Yellowthroats (2), Hooded Merganser (1),
Fulvous Whistling Duck (4), and Green-winged Teal, Blue-Winged Teal, Gadwall,
Mottled Duck, Lesser Scaup, Ruddy Duck, Northern Shoveler, and Black-bellied
Whistling Duck.
On Boca.Chica road today: Chihuahuan Raven (4, a life bird), Peregrine Falcon
(1), Harris' Hawks (13, including 6 perched together on Palmito Road), Northern
Harrier (4), White-tailed Hawk (3), American Kestrel (4), Osprey (1).
Photo highlights are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13451078@N03/
A plea to visitors: please do not hurry toward and approach too closely a
perched bird, especially raptors that are highly sensitive to intrusion. At
Santa Ana last weekend two visitors rushed at a perched White-tailed Kite, with
predictable results. They ignored my pleas not to get too close. A dozen
birders on the morning bird walk who came by a few minutes later didn't get to
see the kite. Thoughtless.
Bob Becker
Rancho Viejo
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