[texbirds] Red Knots still along Boca Chica Road
- From: txbrush@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:18:49 -0700 (PDT)
Following Rex Stanford's note from a while back, John and I headed out along
Boca Chica Road after birding the Sabal Palm Grove (no Masked Duck but very
green and a fair amount of activity: Least Grebes nesting, for example).
Anyway, we found Red Knots almost all the way out to the beach (the edge of the
big body of water to the south, across from the abandoned convenience store).
Got great looks at White-tailed Hawks and saw a big flock of Horned Lark
juveniles...plus a flock of American White Pelicans heading south into Mexico.
Regards and good birding,
Tim Brush
Edinburg, TX
Boca Chica LRGV-NWR (LTC 043), Cameron, US-TX
Jul 12, 2012 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
10.0 mile(s)
36 species (+1 other taxa)
American White Pelican 35
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 2
Tricolored Heron 3
Reddish Egret 80
White Ibis 2
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Harris's Hawk 3
White-tailed Hawk 3
Crested Caracara 2
Black-bellied Plover 15
Snowy Plover 1
Wilson's Plover 4
Semipalmated Plover 1
Black-necked Stilt 10
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Willet 7
Lesser Yellowlegs 14
Long-billed Curlew 3
Red Knot 5 There were several in basic plumage and a couple in alternate
still. Large sandpipers, with not as drooping a bill as a dunlin. Winter
plumage birds mostly plain grayish-tan, and alternative of course strong rusty
color.
Sanderling 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 5
Least Sandpiper 40
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 3
Laughing Gull 15
Least Tern 5
Gull-billed Tern 2
Greater Roadrunner 1
Horned Lark 45 all juveniles--very pale underneath, no yellow--in pretty
tight flock
Barn Swallow 8
Cassin's Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Eastern Meadowlark 2
Great-tailed Grackle 5
Bronzed Cowbird 5
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
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