[texbirds] Santa Ana CBC - Section 9

  • From: MiriamEagl@xxxxxxx
  • To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 17:16:26 -0500 (EST)

Hi, all!
 
I'm sure others will share their results, but I spent a VERY windy morning  
exploring the fields north of Santa Ana NWR for the Christmas Bird Count;  
because of the wind there wasn't much movement (and granted I spent most of 
my  time in the car), but highlights include blackbird flocks of 
Hitchcockian  proportion, a Merlin doing acrobatics, a couple of gorgeous 
White-tailed 
Hawks,  and a couple of Collared Doves, which are actually write-up birds 
(but I have a  feeling they won't be for long...).  One of the blackbird 
flocks that  happened to have a handful of Yellow-headed Blackbirds in with it 
inconveniently  decided to plop down right in the middle of a major 
cabbage-harvesting party  where "Dodge the Truck" was the name of the game 
along 
there!  Not  surprisingly the thornscrub habitat along the levee had the most 
songbirds, and  the little private bond along Unland had a couple of 
Black-crowned Night  Herons.
 
Pictures and a recording of the blackbird mob are posted here:
 
http://miriameaglemon.com/photo_gallery/2013%20Field%20Trips/December/Santa%
20Ana%20CBC.html
 
Bird List (which includes an exercise walk around Chachalaca Trail):
 
  Mottled  Duck                           Anas fulvigula
Northern  Shoveler                      Anas clypeata
Plain  Chachalaca                       Ortalis vetula
Black-crowned  Night-Heron              Nycticorax nycticorax
Turkey  Vulture                         Cathartes aura
Northern  Harrier                       Circus cyaneus
Harris's  Hawk                          Parabuteo unicinctus
White-tailed  Hawk                      Geranoaetus albicaudatus
Red-tailed  Hawk                        Buteo jamaicensis
Killdeer                               Charadrius vociferus
Greater  Yellowlegs                     Tringa melanoleuca
Lesser  Yellowlegs                      Tringa flavipes
Long-billed  Curlew                     Numenius americanus
Stilt  Sandpiper                        Calidris himantopus
Rock  Pigeon                            Columba livia
Eurasian  Collared-Dove                 Streptopelia decaocto
Mourning  Dove                          Zenaida macroura
Inca  Dove                              Columbina inca
White-tipped  Dove                      Leptotila verreauxi
Golden-fronted  Woodpecker              Melanerpes aurifrons
Ladder-backed  Woodpecker               Picoides scalaris
Crested  Caracara                       Caracara cheriway
American  Kestrel                       Falco sparverius
Merlin                                 Falco columbarius
Eastern  Phoebe                         Sayornis phoebe
Great  Kiskadee                         Pitangus sulphuratus
Loggerhead  Shrike                      Lanius ludovicianus
White-eyed  Vireo                       Vireo griseus
Green  Jay                              Cyanocorax yncas
Horned  Lark                            Eremophila alpestris
Tree  Swallow                           Tachycineta bicolor
Black-crested  Titmouse                 Baeolophus atricristatus
House  Wren                             Troglodytes aedon
Carolina  Wren                          Thryothorus ludovicianus
Blue-gray  Gnatcatcher                  Polioptila caerulea
Ruby-crowned  Kinglet                   Regulus calendula
Long-billed  Thrasher                   Toxostoma longirostre
Northern  Mockingbird                   Mimus polyglottos
American  Pipit                         Anthus rubescens
Orange-crowned  Warbler                 Oreothlypis celata
Common  Yellowthroat                    Geothlypis trichas
Yellow-rumped  Warbler                  Setophaga coronata
Savannah  Sparrow                       Passerculus sandwichensis
Lincoln's  Sparrow                      Melospiza lincolnii
Northern  Cardinal                      Cardinalis cardinalis
Red-winged  Blackbird                   Agelaius phoeniceus
Eastern  Meadowlark                     Sturnella magna
Western  Meadowlark                     Sturnella neglecta
Yellow-headed  Blackbird                Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
Great-tailed  Grackle                   Quiscalus mexicanus
Bronzed  Cowbird                        Molothrus aeneus
Brown-headed  Cowbird                   Molothrus ater
House  Sparrow                          Passer domesticus
53 SPECIES

Mary Beth  Stowe
McAllen, TX
_www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/) 



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