Spent the morning at Santa Ana NWR hoping to see some July empids. Wound up with eight Least Flycatchers and not too much else. It's hot, dry, breezy and the gnats are really annoying. Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Hidalgo, US-TX Jul 31, 2013 8:10 AM - 11:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) 51 species Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 4 Mottled Duck 7 Plain Chachalaca 5 Great Egret 1 Snowy Egret 1 Tricolored Heron 1 White Ibis 4 White-faced Ibis 4 Turkey Vulture 3 Harris's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 American Coot 20 Killdeer 2 Black-necked Stilt 40 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 10 Least Sandpiper 15 Stilt Sandpiper 10 White-winged Dove 60 Mourning Dove 12 Common Ground-Dove 1 White-tipped Dove 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 3 Buff-bellied Hummingbird 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 10 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 5 Crested Caracara 3 Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1 Least Flycatcher 8 Great Kiskadee 10 Tropical Kingbird 3 Couch's Kingbird 6 White-eyed Vireo 3 Green Jay 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 9 Black-crested Titmouse 8 Bewick's Wren 3 Carolina Wren 8 Clay-colored Thrush 4 Northern Mockingbird 5 Curve-billed Thrasher 2 Common Yellowthroat 5 Olive Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 3 Blue Grosbeak 1 Red-winged Blackbird 50 Great-tailed Grackle 1 Bronzed Cowbird 4 Orchard Oriole 10 Altamira Oriole 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