[texbirds] Monte Cristo Tract
- From: MiriamEagl@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 15:47:31 -0500 (EST)
Hi, all!
Birded Wallace Road, North Bryan Road, and 13 Mile to the entrance to Lake
Edinburg where I was stopped by a "lake" across the road... It was cold
(37) and overcast, but only a gentle breeze was blowing, so it was tolerable
for road birding! The conditions weren't conducive to photography, so no
pictures today, but eventually had some nice birds including a single
Sprague's Pipit along North Bryan, a couple of Least Flycatchers along the
trail
in the actual tract area (also surprised a herd of Peccaries), and an
American Robin along the west side of 13 Mile that got flagged by EBird!
(Also
had two Hermit Thrushes along there...) Was also surprised that a
1000-bird flock of Rock Pigeons feeding in a field got flagged as well; I
brought
it down to 800 and it still didn't like it... The biggest surprise was a
flooded field along North Bryan that had a good selection of ducks, a few
shorebirds, and both expected goose species flying overhead! (Had four
Sandhill Cranes flying over Wallace earlier...) Bunches of Caracaras were
following a tractor around on Mile 13 (the east side by the orchards), but no
White-tailed Hawks today.
Bird List:
Monte Cristo Tract (LTC 062), Hidalgo, US-TX
Dec 8, 2013 7:09 AM - 11:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
19.0 mile(s)
Comments: 37 degrees, overcast, gentle breeze
57 species
Greater White-fronted Goose 30
Snow Goose 4
Gadwall 7
Mottled Duck 15
Northern Shoveler 30
Green-winged Teal 4
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Northern Harrier 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 4
Sandhill Crane 4
Black-necked Stilt 4
Killdeer 7
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Long-billed Curlew 2
Long-billed Dowitcher 12
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 800 Large flock feeding in field; they
covered a good portion of said field!
Mourning Dove 20
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 6
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 6
Crested Caracara 15
American Kestrel 10
Least Flycatcher 2
Eastern Phoebe 13
Great Kiskadee 12
Couch's Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Green Jay 4
Horned Lark 20
House Wren 18
Bewick's Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Hermit Thrush 2
American Robin 1 Was in a wooded area along the road (part of the
actual tract), giving its "seep tuk-tuk" call.
Long-billed Thrasher 9
Northern Mockingbird 5
American Pipit 12
Sprague's Pipit 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 15
Common Yellowthroat 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
Olive Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow 5
Lincoln's Sparrow 15
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 2000
Western Meadowlark 15
Great-tailed Grackle 2000
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 10
Mary Beth Stowe
McAllen, TX
_www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/)
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