Sweet of you you to mention me....Really! Mary Beth, I can add that in
Jan-Feb of 1994 there was a huge influx of SOSPs to that same area...We
note 40-45+ just near Bentsen and the church camp next door. So maybe this
will be another good year. Plenty of them up in my region this season for
sure.
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Brush Freeman
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Independent consulting.
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120 N. Red Bud Trail. Elgin, Tx. 78621
Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Mary Beth Stowe <mbstowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
Hi, all!
I should do a "Brush" and say, "local interest only" as a Song Sparrow
anywhere outside the LRGV would be ho hum! :-D But one popped up along a
nice little riparian wetland along Dickers Road, just west of Alamo Road in
Hidalgo County (perfect habitat for the little guy)! My section is almost
all farm land with some patchy mesquite "savannah" and some big trees where
there are houses, and some isolated wetlands along the levee and elsewhere.
Other highlights included three Sprague's Pipits, Grasshopper and Cassin's
Sparrows, a young White-tailed Hawk, dogfights between Peregrines and
Harriers, and a very friendly Mockingbird that almost landed on me! J
After
I was done Joyce Davidson and Pat Heirs met me at the Song Sparrow spot to
try and refind it (which we never did), but by going back I added
Ruby-crowned Kinglet, another Sprague's Pipit, and a Sora (which the girls
spotted) to my section! Photos (including a mediocre but diagnostic one of
the Song Sparrow) are on my Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/marybeth.stowe
Bird List (a few things are on this BirdBase list that aren't on the CBC
tally for my area as they were on the wrong side of the levee.):
Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus
Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
Great Egret Ardea alba
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
White-tailed Kite Elanus leucurus
Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus
White-tailed Hawk Geranoaetus albicaudatus
Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
Sora Porzana carolina
American Coot Fulica americana
Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
Rock Pigeon Columba livia
Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
American Kestrel Falco sparverius
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
American Pipit Anthus rubescens
Sprague's Pipit Anthus spragueii
Orange-crowned Warbler Oreothlypis celata
Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata
Cassin's Sparrow Peucaea cassinii
Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
Grasshopper Sparrow Ammodramus savannarum
Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
Western Meadowlark Sturnella neglecta
Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
Lesser Goldfinch Spinus psaltria
American Goldfinch Spinus tristis
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
Mary Beth Stowe
Alamo, TX
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