Seven people from around the country joined me today. We had both green and ringed kingfisher at Pintail Lake, and the redhead continues. Bird walks are offered daily and leave the visitor center at 8:30 am. Photos of bird walks are often posted on our Facebook page, www.Facebook.com/SantaAnaNWR Santa Ana NWR- Pintail Lakes Trail, Hidalgo, US-TX Jan 23, 2013 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) 55 species (+1 other taxa) Gadwall 30 American Wigeon 5 Mottled Duck 7 Blue-winged Teal 6 Cinnamon Teal 7 Northern Shoveler 20 Northern Pintail 25 Green-winged Teal 15 Redhead 1 Ring-necked Duck 1 Lesser Scaup 7 Bufflehead 2 Least Grebe 4 Pied-billed Grebe 6 Neotropic Cormorant 4 White-faced Ibis 12 Harris's Hawk 6 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 40 Killdeer 6 Black-necked Stilt 30 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 6 Lesser Yellowlegs 6 Least Sandpiper 4 Long-billed Dowitcher 3 Mourning Dove 2 White-tipped Dove 1 Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird 1 Ringed Kingfisher 1 pintail lake 2 Green Kingfisher 1 pintail lake 2 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 on tram road shortly before towers Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3 Eastern Phoebe 2 Great Kiskadee 12 White-eyed Vireo 4 Green Jay 5 Tree Swallow 8 Cave Swallow 50 Black-crested Titmouse 6 Marsh Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 15 Orange-crowned Warbler 7 Common Yellowthroat 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 10 Olive Sparrow 8 Savannah Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 300 Altamira Oriole 2 House Sparrow 15 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 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