[texbirds] Hidalgo Co: continuing Rose-throated Becard at Santa Ana - 18 Nov 2013
- From: Michael Marsden <valleybirders@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:47:22 -0600
This morning (at about 8am) the Rose-throated Becard at Santa Ana was,
incongruously, among the starlings and blackbirds on the metal
communications tower by the picnic area. It's about the last place I would
have expected it, but it's apparently a favorite perch.
Other highlights of the morning's birding with Carolyn Broussard, Janet
Landry & Cindy Garza included:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - 1400+ on the Arroyo Colorado at Estero
Llano Grande SP;
Cinnamon Teal - pair at the Anacua Unit of Las Palomas WMA;
scaup sp - a pair at Estero looked, from shape & structure, to be
textbook Greaters but the drake's nail & flank pattern were more similar to
Lessers' and we didn't see the wing-pattern;
Bufflehead - fem/1st year at the Ebony Unit of Las Palomas WMA (no sign
of the Ruddy Duck family in the ten minutes or so we were there);
Long-billed Curlew - flock of c70 over Estero;
King Rail - singleton calling at Anacua;
Peregrine Falcon - juv at Progreso grain silos;
Ringed Kingfisher - pair at Anacua;
Green Kingfisher - male at Rio Rico pumphouse &
Black Phoebe - pair on the Rio Grande at the Rio Rico pumphouse (at the
very SE corner of Hidalgo County - they are rare this far east).
Michael Marsden
956-276-4409
San Benito, TX
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