[texbirds] Santa Ana Daily Bird Walk, February 4, 2013 + other visitor sightings

  • From: Tiffany Kersten <tiffanykersten@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 13:25:03 -0600

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

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