Sorry I meant on the Sand Shield Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 13, 2014, at 11:40 AM, Jim Sinclair <jim.sinclair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A couple of us spent most of Wednesday on the Norias division of the King > Ranch. We weren't real thrilled with all of the strong winds out of the > north, but the sun felt nice. Norias has received a fair amount of rain > lately, and the bromiads seem to be recovering strongly in some areas. > For me the bird of the day was an American Robin! We simply don't see > robins down this way in recent years. > > We found a pair of Ferruginous Pygmy-owls fairly early in the morning > before the winds picked up. Other interesting observations were an (early) > Upland Sandpiper, and a heard only (assumed Tropical) Parula, plus a > probable flyby later. (Tom Langschied and I had found a Northern Beardless > Tyrannulet the day before, but we didn't find it on this trip.) > > We finished the day on Santa Gertrudis where we had a LeConte's Sparrow in > with all the Savanna Sparrows. > > Full list below: > > American Black Vulture, 3 > American Goldfinch, 3 > American Kestrel, 3 > American Robin, 1 > American Wigeon, 6 > Barn Swallow, 2 > Black-crested Titmouse, 10 > Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 1 > Cattle Egret, 8 > Common Ground-Dove, 4 > Common Starling, 1 > Couch's Kingbird, 3 > Crested Caracara, 9 > Curve-billed Thrasher, 2 > Eastern Bluebird, 1 > Eastern Meadowlark, 4 > Eastern Phoebe, 2 > Eurasian Collared-Dove, 1 > Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, 2 > Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 4 > Great Horned Owl, 1 > Greater Kiskadee, 2 > Greater Roadrunner, 2 > Greater Yellowlegs, 1 > Great-tailed Grackle, 5 > Harris' Hawk, 3 > Northern Harrier, 1 > House Sparrow, 1 > Inca Dove, 2 > Green Jay, 4 > Killdeer, 1 > Lark Sparrow, 4 > Lincoln's Sparrow, 1 > Loggerhead Shrike, 2 > Louisiana Waterthrush, 2 > Mourning Dove, 50 > Northern Cardinal, 3 > Northern Crested Caracara, 8 > Northern Mockingbird, 12 > Northern Shoveler, 4 > Orange-crowned Warbler, 1 > Pyrrhuloxia, 1 > Red-tailed Hawk, 2 > Rock-Pigeon, 1 > Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 4 > Savannah Sparrow, 20 > Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 2 > Sharp-shinned Hawk, 1 > Sprague's Pipit, 1 > Tree Swallow, 1 > Tropical Parula, 2 > Turkey Vulture, 15 > Vermilion Flycatcher, 5 > Vesper Sparrow, 3 > Western Meadowlark, 10 > White-eyed Vireo, 1 > Wild Turkey, 25 > Yellow-rumped Warbler, 4 > > > -- > Jim Sinclair (TX-ESA) > TOS Life Member > Kingsville, TX > > "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of > thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein > > > Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at > //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds > > Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission > from the List Owner > > Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner