Birders from Missouri and Virginia joined me on today's walk. eBird list below. Other birds of note include visitor reports of a Hook-billed Kite seen from the hawk tower both yesterday afternoon and again this monring, and of a Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet and Least Flycatcher reported on the eastern end of Willow Lakes Trail this morning. Two gray hawks (one juv, one adult) were also reported by visitors on Willow Lakes Trail this morning. Santa Ana NWR- Pintail Lakes Trail, Hidalgo, US-TX Feb 4, 2013 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) 51 species (+1 other taxa) Gadwall 30 American Wigeon 2 Mottled Duck 6 Blue-winged Teal 20 Cinnamon Teal 10 Northern Shoveler 30 Northern Pintail 30 Green-winged Teal 20 Redhead 3 Ring-necked Duck 15 Lesser Scaup 7 Bufflehead 1 Ruddy Duck 15 Least Grebe 12 Pied-billed Grebe 7 Eared Grebe 1 Great Egret 1 Snowy Egret 2 Little Blue Heron 1 White Ibis 2 White-faced Ibis 15 Black Vulture 7 Turkey Vulture 40 White-tailed Kite 1 Northern Harrier 1 Harris's Hawk 2 White-tailed Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 70 Black-necked Stilt 50 Greater Yellowlegs 30 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Least Sandpiper 50 Long-billed Dowitcher 20 White-tipped Dove 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2 American Kestrel 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Kiskadee 10 Loggerhead Shrike 1 White-eyed Vireo 2 Green Jay 5 Black-crested Titmouse 3 Northern Mockingbird 1 American Pipit 8 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Savannah Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird 100 Eastern/Western Meadowlark 3 Altamira Oriole 2 Tiffany L. Kersten Visitor Services Specialist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge 3325 Green Jay Road Alamo, TX 78516 956-784-7500 Find us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SantaAnaNWR 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