Hi, all! Just a quick report for now, but MJ Syvertsen, Pat Heirs, and myself went looking for Hudsonian Godwit and White-rumped Sandpiper before the window closed; dipped on those, but had some other nice things. Highlights include: Lots of Buff-breasted Sandpipers and one Upland Sandpiper at the north end of the Weaver Road sod farms a Ringed Kingfisher near the little bridge along Jimenez (where the Cave Swallows nest) Aplomado Falcon near the shack along SR 100 several knockout Roseate Spoonbills at Port Isabel Reservoir Lots of breeding-plumaged Dunlin behind the SPI Convention Center Philadelphia Vireo and other lingering migrants at said center Pictures and recordings will be forthcoming; full list below. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus Great Egret Ardea alba Snowy Egret Egretta thula Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Green Heron Butorides virescens Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura Osprey Pandion haliaetus Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus American Avocet Recurvirostra americana Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia Killdeer Charadrius vociferus Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius Willet Tringa semipalmata Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus Sanderling Calidris alba Dunlin Calidris alpina Buff-breasted Sandpiper Calidris subruficollis Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla Least Tern Sternula antillarum Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis Black Skimmer Rynchops niger Rock Pigeon Columba livia Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura Common Ground-Dove Columbina passerina Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway Aplomado Falcon Falco femoralis Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens Brown-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus tyrannulus Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus Philadelphia Vireo Vireo philadelphicus Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris Purple Martin Progne subis Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica Cave Swallow Petrochelidon fulva Verdin Auriparus flaviceps Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus Curve-billed Thrasher Toxostoma curvirostre Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos European Starling Sturnus vulgaris Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens Olive Sparrow Arremonops rufivirgatus Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula House Sparrow Passer domesticus 85 SPECIES Mary Beth Stowe McAllen, TX _www.miriameaglemon.com_ (http://www.miriameaglemon.com/) 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