This morning I enjoyed an invigorating hike into Sal del Rey from Brushline Road. There's lots of grass in the brush and water in the lake is up into the concrete culverts. Quite a few shorebirds best of which were a Dunlin and 35 Snowy Plovers. Sal del Rey, Lower Rio Grande NWR, Hidalgo, US-TX Nov 28, 2013 9:15 AM - 11:45 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) 32 species Eared Grebe 5 Turkey Vulture 40 Sandhill Crane 1 Black-necked Stilt 35 American Avocet 1 Snowy Plover 35 Lesser Yellowlegs 13 Long-billed Curlew 2 Stilt Sandpiper 6 Dunlin 1 Least Sandpiper 315 Western Sandpiper 10 Wilson's Phalarope 3 Mourning Dove 2 Common Ground-Dove 2 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 4 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2 Crested Caracara 2 Peregrine Falcon 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Green Jay 3 Black-crested Titmouse 2 Verdin 1 House Wren 7 Bewick's Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Northern Mockingbird 3 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Savannah Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 House Sparrow 2 Dan Jones, Weslaco 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