It's still good at Quintana on Saturday. Higher number birds, especially
American Redstarts.
Thanks!
Pam Smolen
Houston
On May 12, 2017, at 8:14 PM, Joe Fischer (Redacted sender "fischer13" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It was a rather good day at Quintana considering its May 12th. A few
oriole's, tanagers, grosbeak's, all the thrushes, and lots of flycatchers.
Probably the best warbler day of the spring at Quintana. When I got to
Quintana, Jackie Hicks had already seen the Golden winged and asked me for ID
help on bird which was a female Cape May. As the day progressed, the birds
just kept showing up. Tad Finnell and I had the place to ourselves for the
majority of the day. Ended up with 14 warbler species on the little plot of
scrub. At one point, I had both male and female Golden wing in my binoculars
and they were seen throughout the day. Other good warblers included Canada,
Blackburnian, Chestnut, and Northern Parula. At one point, Tad had 7
Tennessee warblers in the water feature at the same time. In many cases,
both sexes were present. Best warbler however was a Blue-winged on May
12th! Tad and I had good looks at this bird. Winds are lightening up a fair
amount overnight, so I
would not expect everything to stay, but some should still be around in the
morning.
Joe Fischer
Friendswood, TX
http://www.pbase.com/joe_e_fischer
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