TexBirders,
Oops. Sorry, I stated 86 species found on this outing but it was really just 84.
Tom Langschied
Kingsville, TX
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From: Tom Langschied
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 6:20 PM
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Tom Langschied <TLangschied@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Harris's Hawks, Barn Owls and Audubon's Orioles on Santa Gertrudis
div. King Ranch, Jan. 19
TexBirders,
On Tuesday, Jan. 19, I once again birded the Santa Gertrudis division of King
Ranch for much of the morning and early afternoon. Overall 86 species were
found but while the Ash-throated Flycatcher was not re-found, other highlights
included Barn Owl (8), Say's Phoebe (3), Sprague's Pipit , Nashville Warbler,
and Audubon's Oriole (2). Also exciting was to watch a couple of Harris's
Hawks attack an American Coot swimming in a small lake. Despite several times
that one of the hawks grabbed it, the coot seemed too heavy for them to drag it
to the shoreline. At one point one of the hawks held the coot under water in a
shallow area in an attempt to apparently drown it. But eventually the hawks
seemed to tire of the activity and the coot ultimately swam off seemingly
unhurt which is hard to believe from the attacks witnessed. The Barn owls
encountered were in a salt cedar grove on the ranch where during the Kingsville
CBC (Jan. 2) we had 11 which I considered pretty amazing.
Good birding,
Tom Langschied
Kingsville, TX
Birds noted on the Santa Gertrudis Div., King Ranch - 01/19/16
1. Gadwall 30
2. American Wigeon 6
3. Mottled Duck 4
4. Blue-winged Teal 9
5. Northern Shoveler 2
6. Green-winged Teal 6
7. Northern Bobwhite 11
8. Wild Turkey 6
9. Least Grebe 4
10. Pied-billed Grebe 3
11. Neotropic Cormorant 6
12. Double-crested Cormorant 2
13. Anhinga 2
14. Great Blue Heron 2
15. Great Egret 1
16. Snowy Egret 1
17. Cattle Egret 5
18. Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
19. White Ibis 1
20. Black Vulture 8
21. Turkey Vulture 14
22. White-tailed Kite 3
23. Northern Harrier 2
24. Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
25. Cooper's Hawk 1
26. Harris's Hawk 6
27. White-tailed Hawk 2
28. Red-tailed Hawk 7
29. Common Gallinule 8
30. American Coot 15
31. Sandhill Crane 20
32. Black-necked Stilt 2
33. American Avocet 4
34. Killdeer 9
35. Greater Yellowlegs 2
36. Least Sandpiper 6
37. Wilson's Snipe 5
38. Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
39. Inca Dove 12
40. White-tipped Dove 2
41. Mourning Dove 20
42. Greater Roadrunner 2
43. Barn Owl 8
44. Great Horned Owl 2
45. Green Kingfisher 1
46. Golden-fronted Woodpecker 4
47. Ladder-backed Woodpecker 4
48. Crested Caracara 9
49. American Kestrel 8
50. Eastern Phoebe 4
51. Say's Phoebe 3
52. Vermilion Flycatcher 5
53. Great Kiskadee 4
54. Couch's Kingbird 1
55. Loggerhead Shrike 5
56. White-eyed Vireo 1
57. Green Jay 10
58. Black-crested Titmouse 1
59. House Wren 1
60. Bewick's Wren 1
61. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
62. Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
63. Eastern Bluebird 3
64. Curve-billed Thrasher 4
65. Long-billed Thrasher 2
66. Northern Mockingbird 12
67. European Starling 6
68. American Pipit 3
69. Sprague's Pipit 1
70. Orange-crowned Warbler 6
71. Nashville Warbler 1
72. Pine Warbler 1
73. Yellow-rumped Warbler 14
74. Olive Sparrow 2
75. Vesper Sparrow 5
76. Savannah Sparrow 20
77. Northern Cardinal 8
78. Pyrrhuloxia 4
79. Red-winged Blackbird 2
80. Western Meadowlark 18
81. Brewer's Blackbird 4
82. Great-tailed Grackle 25
83. Brown-headed Cowbird 8
84. Audubon's Oriole 2
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