[texbirds] Resaca de la Palma State Park - eBird and Water Levels

From: Sherry Wilson <rollingsoles@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:34:48 -0600
 A Hooded Oriole was seen this morning in the far SE part of Quail Loop.
Not a first sighting - but we hadn't seen one for a while and decided
perhaps they hadn't nested here after all.  I believe the nest is outside
the park on private property.

The first section of the resaca received water recently.  The level is
fairly low but good for the wading birds.  Hunter's Lane resaca is also on
the low side but the level should be rising a little this afternoon.
Spoonbills, stilts and Tricolored Herons were seen from Hunter's Lane.  The
remainder of the resaca is dry at this time.

Verdin and Bewicks Wrens are active throughout the park.  The most reliable
spot to find both remains the first section of Flycatcher Trail - either
direction.
-- 
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

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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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49 species (+2 other taxa)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck  2
Mottled Duck  2
Plain Chachalaca  3
Least Grebe  1
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Neotropic Cormorant  5
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  5
Tricolored Heron  2
Green Heron  6
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  5
White Ibis  3
Roseate Spoonbill  4
Turkey Vulture  8
White-tailed Kite  3
Killdeer  3
Black-necked Stilt  2
Laughing Gull  2
White-winged Dove  29
Mourning Dove  27
Common Ground-Dove  3
White-tipped Dove  1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  8
Groove-billed Ani  23
Common Nighthawk  1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird   3
Golden-fronted Woodpecker  11
Ladder-backed Woodpecker  1
Brown-crested Flycatcher  3
Myiarchus sp.  6
Great Kiskadee  6
Couch's Kingbird  16
Tropical/Couch's Kingbird  3
White-eyed Vireo  3
Green Jay  10
Black-crested Titmouse  8
Verdin  2
Carolina Wren  5
Bewick's Wren  3
Northern Mockingbird  40
Common Yellowthroat  3
Olive Sparrow  8
Cassin's Sparrow  2
Northern Cardinal  9
Painted Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  19
Great-tailed Grackle  54
Bronzed Cowbird  7
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Hooded Oriole  1     SE end of Quail Loop
Altamira Oriole  1
[texbirds] Resaca de la Palma State Park - eBird and Water Levels

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