[texbirds] Lake Casa Blanca SP
- From: MiriamEagl@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:50:00 -0500 (EST)
Hi, all!
Yes, the gull was seen, but no, not by me... :-( (Second chance
tomorrow...) The nicest birds were actually what I saw on the way there:
from the
Ranch Google sent me by way of the back roads through Hebronville, and so I
was treated to many nice Harris', White-tailed, and Red-tailed Hawks,
Caracaras, and even a Chihuahuan Raven closer to Laredo. Once at the park I
just cruised around and checked all the buoys and gulls in the lake; lots of
Ringbills and a few Herring, but dipped on the Slatyback. Ran into Robin
and Troy and a couple of other people I didn't know, and they said the bird
had been seen 20 minutes earlier by the Pavilion (which was where I was
about then)! That would have put the sighting around 2:30 or so, I think.
They were looking for the Western Grebe, and no one had heard anything about
the longspurs.
The place had picnickers and fisher-people galore, so birdlife was slim
(it was also hot), but an exercise walk on the new Mesquite Bend Trail bagged
Chipping and Black-throated Sparrows, and another trail closer to the
campground had a Pyrrhuloxia in with the Chippies. A couple of Killdeer were
mad at me in one of the day use areas...
A couple of pics are here:
http://miriameaglemon.com/photo_gallery/2014%20Field%20Trips/February/Lake%2
0Casa%20Blanca%20SP.html
...or try this:
http://tinyurl.com/ktvagmc
Bird List (the parakeets were at the Ranch before I left...):
Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Osprey Pandion haliaetus
Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
White-tailed Hawk Geranoaetus albicaudatus
Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
American Coot Fulica americana
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
Herring Gull Larus argentatus
Rock Pigeon Columba livia
Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
American Kestrel Falco sparverius
Green Parakeet Aratinga holochlora
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
Chihuahuan Raven Corvus cryptoleucus
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula
Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata
Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
39 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
McAllen, TX
www.miriameaglemon.com
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