Hi, all!
Joyce Davidson and I birded Laguna Seca Road this morning and had a nice
selection; probably the most exciting sighting was a Tarantula crossing the
road! Other highlights included a young Swainson's Hawk, courting and mating
Painted Buntings, a family of Bobwhite with fuzzy little babies :-), a
buzzing Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (rare in summer), and a "Fuertes'" Red-tailed
Hawk (he's usually somewhere along in there...)! A few pics are on my
Facebook page:
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eBird list:
Hidalgo Co.--Laguna Seca rd.
Jul 1, 2017
6:38 AM
Traveling
18.60 miles
255 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: 82 to 94 degrees, mix of sun and clouds, slight breeze to breezy
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10 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
52 Northern Bobwhite
4 Cattle Egret
10 Turkey Vulture
4 White-tailed Hawk
1 Swainson's Hawk -- Immature
1 Red-tailed Hawk (fuertesi) -- brown head and back w/ mottled scraps, clean
off-white breast, head looked entirely brown. Flew before I could get
documentation; known site for this bird, although is the first time I've had
it just south if FM 1017; usually hangs out near FM 490 and Laguna Seca Red.
1 Killdeer
5 Eurasian Collared-Dove
5 Common Ground-Dove
8 White-winged Dove
39 Mourning Dove
3 Greater Roadrunner
2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Common Nighthawk
8 Golden-fronted Woodpecker
3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
5 Crested Caracara
8 Brown-crested Flycatcher
4 Great Kiskadee
3 Western Kingbird
17 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
2 Loggerhead Shrike
2 Green Jay
5 Purple Martin
3 Black-crested Titmouse
10 Verdin
9 Bewick's Wren
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher -- Distinctive two-toned buzzy call; long, bicolored
tail; gray above, White below. Recording & photo to follow.
1 Curve-billed Thrasher
5 Long-billed Thrasher
13 Northern Mockingbird
16 European Starling
8 Cassin's Sparrow
8 Olive Sparrow
8 Lark Sparrow
27 Northern Cardinal
15 Pyrrhuloxia
6 Blue Grosbeak
25 Painted Bunting
8 Red-winged Blackbird
6 Eastern Meadowlark
25 Great-tailed Grackle
8 Bronzed Cowbird
7 Brown-headed Cowbird
1 Bullock's Oriole
15 House Sparrow
Number of Taxa: 47
Mary Beth Stowe
Alamo, TX
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