Here are some of the birds that have been seen at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge this week. Please feel free to come visit us anytime & join our programs/walks! Species: Blue-winged Teal Plain Chachalaca Least Grebe Neotropic Cormorant Cattle Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night-Heron White-faced Ibis Black Vulture Turkey Vulture White-tailed Kite Harris's Hawk Gray Hawk Common Gallinule American Coot Killdeer Black-necked Stilt Upland Sandpiper White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove Common Ground-Dove White-tipped Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Groove-billed Ani Eastern Screech-Owl nighthawk sp. Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird Buff-bellied Hummingbird Ringed Kingfisher Golden-fronted Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet Least Flycatcher Empidonax sp. Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus sp. Great Kiskadee Tropical Kingbird Couch's Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Green Jay Purple Martin Barn Swallow Cave Swallow Black-crested Titmouse Verdin Bewick's Wren Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Northern Mockingbird Long-billed Thrasher European Starling Yellow Warbler Olive Sparrow Northern Cardinal Dickcissel Red-winged Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Bronzed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Altamira Oriole Lesser Goldfinch House Sparrow Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Snowy Egret Tricolored Heron American Avocet Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Phalarope Black Tern Forster's Tern Chimney Swift Northern Rough-winged Swallow Baltimore Oriole Programs for September 2012: Tuesdays- Wildlife Photography Walks 9am Wednesdays- Butterfly Walks 10am Nature Trams- Saturdays at 9:30am National Public Lands Day- Sept. 29TH, 9am-noon. Give back to your refuge with a morning trail clean up. Texas Nature Challenge- Aug 25th-Nov 11/ naturechallenge.tamu.edu Rio Reforestation- Saturday, Oct. 13th, www.fws.gov/refuge/Lower_Rio_Grande_Valley Ayissa Sandoval Public Use Assistant U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Santa Ana NWR 3325 Green Jay Rd Alamo, TX 78516 956.784.7500