[texbirds] Resaca de la Palma State Park - Purple Gallinule Photos & eBird List

  • From: Sherry Wilson <rollingsoles@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:51:35 -0600

The Purple Gallinule remains in the Kiskadee Deck area for a second day.
You should have a good chance of seeing it, either from the deck or the far
south end of the second bridge.  Least Bittern chicks and adults can still
be easily seen in the Hunter's Lane Resaca.

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Sherry Wilson
Resident Park Host
Resaca de la Palma State Park
1000 New Carmen Road
Brownsville, TX  78521
956-350-2920

Bird Walks every Saturday - 8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Butterfly Walks every Sunday - 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Night Hikes every Friday (must RSVP by 5:00 p.m. Thurs)  - small fee
Nature Tram Rides - Thursday thru Sunday

http://www.facebook.com/resacadelapalma

DIRECTIONS:  The main entrance to Resaca de la Palma State Park is located
on New Carmen Blvd. From Expressway 77/83, exit at Olmito, take FM 1732,
follow for 2.5 miles; turn left at New Carmen Road; follow for 1.5 miles;
shortly after the gravel hump in the road, turn left to enter the park.

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 42 species (+1 other taxa)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck  2
Plain Chachalaca  10
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Green Heron  2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1
White Ibis  3
Turkey Vulture  2
White-tailed Kite  1
Purple Gallinule  1
Common Gallinule  2
American Coot  1
Killdeer  1
White-winged Dove  27
Mourning Dove  6
Common Ground-Dove  4
White-tipped Dove  3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  8
Groove-billed Ani  9
Common Pauraque  1
Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird  1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird  1
Green Kingfisher  1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker  7
Brown-crested Flycatcher  2
Great Kiskadee  6
Couch's Kingbird  5
White-eyed Vireo  3
Green Jay  21
Purple Martin  1
Black-crested Titmouse  6
Verdin  2
Northern Mockingbird  20
Long-billed Thrasher  1
Olive Sparrow  15
Northern Cardinal  11
Painted Bunting  2
Red-winged Blackbird  12
Great-tailed Grackle  23
Bronzed Cowbird  5
Altamira Oriole  1
Lesser Goldfinch  1

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