[texbirds] LRGV: 14-17 November 2012
- From: Michael Marsden <valleybirders@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:30:03 -0600
Highlights of the 170 species seen during 4 days of birding the Lower Rio
Grande Valley with friends from Indiana and Puerto Rico included:
Fulvous Whistling-Duck - at Estero Llano Grande SP on 14th
Bufflehead - 2 at Salineno on 16th
Scaled Quail - at the site host's feeders at Falcon County Park on 16th
Common Loon - flying N off Boca Chica beach on 15th
Wood Stork - singletons over Santa Ana on 14th & Los Fresnos on 15th
Zone-tailed Hawk - singletons at Salineno on 16th & Anzalduas on 17th
Ferruginous Hawk - singletons flying S over Salineno on 16th & Santa Ana
on 17th (it's looking like a particularly good winter for them in the
Valley)
Merlin - 'prairie' at Boca Chica on 15th
Sandhill Crane - c180 over Los Fresnos on 15th
Red Knot - 2 on Boca Chica beach on 15th
Red-billed Pigeon - at Salineno on 16th
parrots - the most memorable sight of the trip: a myriad of parrots of at
least 3 species (together with a single Green Parakeet) roosting
at Brownsville's Oliveira Park on 15th
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 at Salineno on 17th
Northern Flicker - 2 at Salineno on 17th
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet - by the entrance resaca at Santa Ana on
14th
Blue-headed Vireo - by the car park at Sabal Palms on 15th
Golden-crowned Kinglet - by the car park at Sabal Palms on 15th
Clay-colored Thrush - singleton at the feeders at Bentsen SP on 17th & 3+
at the Valley Nature Center in Weslaco on 17th
Sprague's Pipit - at least 3 at Anzalduas on 17th
Cedar Waxwing - at Laguna Atascosa on 15th
Northern Parula - between the visitors' center & the levee at Santa Ana
on 14th
Pine Warbler - on the Chachalaca trail at Santa Ana on 17th
Yellow-headed Blackbird - at the feeders at Falcon County Park on 14th
Common Grackle - 'bronzed' singleton at the feeders at Falcon on 14th
(perhaps the 'best' bird of the trip!) &
Audubon's Oriole - 2 at Salineno on the 16th.
We came across most of the regular local specialties (Gray & White-tailed
Hawks, Ringed & Green Kingfishers, Olive Sparrow, Altamira Oriole etc) in
goodish numbers at just about all the expected places but dipped on Muscovy
Duck, Aplomado Falcon, Hook-billed Kite & the Valley Nature Center's
Crimson-collared Grosbeak (but many thanks to Martin Hagne for posting the
latter and adding some excitement to our last afternoon!).
Michael Marsden
956-246-6006
San Benito, TX.
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