Hi, all!
Had the day off for some alone time birding - only I wasn't all that "alone"
at South Padre! :-D The flats just north of the Convention Centre were
finally driveable (i.e., the tide was out - still looked kinda scary for
your average vehicle), and they held a good variety of shorebirds: four
kinds of plovers in breeding plumage, courting terns, and pink-bellied
Franklin's Gulls were all fun to see, along with my first Black and Common
Terns for the year. No unusual sandpipers - just several Sanderlings and
Dunlin, and a lone Ruddy Turnstone.
It was slow at the Convention Centre to start, but the migrants waited for
Sue Griffin and Alicia Cavazos to show up to start moving! J There were
lots of Yellows, but they shortly started spotting Tennessees, a
Chestnut-sided, Black-throated Green, Nashville, and a Blackpoll Warbler!
Other goodies there (both in the morning and during the afternoon shift)
included the continuing Cape May Warbler that seemed addicted to this one
orange on the "citrus bar," Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow-billed Cuckoo,
Gray-cheeked Thrush, Northern Waterthrush, and lots of Baltimore Orioles.
The boardwalk had some nice waders and a cooperative Sora, and a run-in with
San Diego buddies Tony Merceica and Vic Murayama resulted in their showing
me the baby Least Bitterns! I ran into some guests from the Alamo Inn B&B
Gear & Tours who were thrilled at getting a photo of their life Clapper Rail
out in the open!
Sheepshead was really jumping with a report of a Cerulean and MacGillivray's
Warbler, but in the course of two visits got to enjoy a female Golden-winged
Warbler, a Mourning Warbler jumping around for bugs, in-your-face American
Redstarts, Black-and-whites, a Magnolia, Northern Parula, tons of female
Painted Buntings, and a bath-time line-up of orioles in every conceivable
plumage at the water feature! Wound up with 101 species for the day!
A few pictures are on my Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/marybeth.stowe
Bird List:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis
Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
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
White Ibis Eudocimus albus
Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris
Sora Porzana carolina
Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
American Coot Fulica americana
Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus
Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus
Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca
Willet Tringa semipalmata
Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
Sanderling Calidris alba
Dunlin Calidris alpina
Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus
Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
Franklin's Gull Leucophaeus pipixcan
Least Tern Sternula antillarum
Black Tern Chlidonias niger
Common Tern Sterna hirundo
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
Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus
Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris
Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus
Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens
Acadian Flycatcher Empidonax virescens
Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Western Kingbird Tyrannus verticalis
Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus
Purple Martin Progne subis
Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
Bank Swallow Riparia riparia
Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
Cliff Swallow Petrochelidon pyrrhonota
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Marsh Wren Cistothorus palustris
Gray-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus
Swainson's Thrush Catharus ustulatus
Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
Golden-winged Warbler Vermivora chrysoptera
Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
Tennessee Warbler Oreothlypis peregrina
Nashville Warbler Oreothlypis ruficapilla
Mourning Warbler Geothlypis philadelphia
Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina
Northern Parula Setophaga americana
Magnolia Warbler Setophaga magnolia
Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia
Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
Canada Warbler Cardellina canadensis
Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii
Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
Painted Bunting Passerina ciris
Dickcissel Spiza americana
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
101 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
Alamo, TX
www.miriameaglemon.com
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