[texbirds] Hidalgo Co: Alamo/San Juan - 16 Aug 2012

  • From: Michael Marsden <valleybirders@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:07:04 -0500

There's some productive, though probably short lived, birding on the
stubble fields & flooded pasture on the north side of that section of El
Gato Road between Alamo Road (Alamo) & South Stewart Road (San Juan)  at
the moment.  Birds there this morning included:
   9 Blue-winged Teal
  c210 Cattle Egrets
  3 White Ibis
  48 White-faced Ibis
  23 Swainson's Hawks (they had obviously roosted overnight in the fields)
  6 Killdeer
  20 Black-necked Stilts
  1 Greater Yellowlegs
  c170 Lesser Yellowlegs
  1 Solitary Sandpiper
  4 Least Sandpipers
  c85 Stilt Sandpipers
  13 Long-billed Dowitchers &
  800+ Rock Pigeons.

Michael Marsden
956-246-6006
Alamo Inn, TX

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