Hi, all!
I was sorely lacking data for April for the Sparrow Road Route (and today
was the only day I could do it), so headed out there this morning; the
"barren fields" are now full of crops! Dickcissels were all over the place
where the sorghum was growing, and it looks like Painted Buntings and Blue
Grosbeaks are back on territory! Had one Grasshopper Sparrow near the south
end of the dirt portion of Jara Chinas. Other highlights included a Turkey
along 14 Mile Road, a few Bullock's Orioles, and a very cooperative
Swainson's Hawk! EBird list is below; pictures will be up when I can get to
them. :)
Hidalgo Co.--FM 2221 'sparrow road'
Apr 22, 2017
6:58 AM
Traveling
25.00 miles
249 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: 72 to 84 degrees, mostly sunny, breezy Submitted from eBird for
iOS, version 1.4.2 Build 114
20 Northern Bobwhite
1 Wild Turkey -- Known location; large, heavy bird with small head and
skinny neck, walking across road.
1 Great Egret
10 white egret sp.
8 Turkey Vulture
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
1 Harris's Hawk
2 Swainson's Hawk
1 Killdeer
1 White-tipped Dove
8 White-winged Dove
57 Mourning Dove
3 Greater Roadrunner
1 nighthawk sp.
15 Golden-fronted Woodpecker
6 Crested Caracara
1 Ash-throated Flycatcher
5 Brown-crested Flycatcher
3 Great Kiskadee
3 Couch's Kingbird
1 Tropical/Couch's Kingbird
6 Western Kingbird
11 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
1 Loggerhead Shrike
1 White-eyed Vireo
30 Horned Lark
3 swallow sp.
11 Verdin
10 Bewick's Wren
3 Curve-billed Thrasher
2 Long-billed Thrasher
37 Northern Mockingbird
12 Cassin's Sparrow
1 Grasshopper Sparrow
13 Olive Sparrow
1 Black-throated Sparrow
30 Lark Sparrow
14 Northern Cardinal
6 Pyrrhuloxia
9 Northern Cardinal/Pyrrhuloxia
1 Blue Grosbeak
9 Painted Bunting
27 Dickcissel
33 Red-winged Blackbird
6 Eastern Meadowlark
24 Great-tailed Grackle
3 Bronzed Cowbird
11 Brown-headed Cowbird
3 Bullock's Oriole
10 House Sparrow
Number of Taxa: 50
Mary Beth Stowe
Alamo, TX
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