[texbirds] Migrants @ Edinburg Wetlands
- From: MiriamEagl@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 20:17:15 -0400 (EDT)
Hi, all!
Decided to bird instead of walk on my lunch hour at Edinburg Wetlands two
days this week :-) and I'm kicking myself for not bringing my camera or
recorder (just plain forgot it the second day), as right there in the parking
lot, migrants were coming at me from all sides! (This was Tuesday the 15th
and Wednesday the 16th...) On Tuesday a Willow Flycatcher was in my face,
and on Wednesday a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher was in my face, both calling
vigorously, so between the vocalizations and the more obvious field marks,
there was no mistaking what they were! However, after doing some on-line
research, I'm taking Acadian Flycatcher off the Big Year list: although the
calls I recorded at Frontera match those on a recording made by Ted Parker
in Panama (and if anyone knew his vocalizations, he did), I found the
"peeps" of Acadian and Yellow-bellied very similar, and even the literature
describes them as such, so without a visual on the Frontera bird, I'm just not
sure. So, substituting the Yellow-bellied for the Acadian, and logging
Willow and Red-eyed Vireo for the year, that brings me up to 296 for the year!
Here's a partial list of what I had over the two days (partial only in that
I really wasn't paying attention to the resident birds):
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
Black-chinned Hummingbird Archilochus alexandri
Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis
Green Kingfisher Chloroceryle americana
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER Empidonax flaviventris
WILLOW FLYCATCHER Empidonax traillii
Great Crested Flycatcher Myiarchus crinitus
Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus
RED-EYED VIREO Vireo olivaceus
Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre
Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre
Tennessee Warbler Oreothlypis peregrina
Nashville Warbler Oreothlypis ruficapilla
Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia
Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
33 SPECIES
So far: 296 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
McAllen, TX
_www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/)
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