Hi, all!
Took visiting birders Gary, Jon, and Jesse from Indiana out birding today
(and yesterday, too, but didn't get a report out.); we birded Salineno,
Falcon State Park, and stopped at Bentsen on the way home. Couldn't find
any seedeaters and no Muscovies flew by, but we did have nice looks at a
Ringed Kingfisher and a couple of Gray Hawks, and one of the guys spotted a
Zone-tailed Hawk from Merle and Lois' yard! Dipped on orioles but a
Sharp-shinned Hawk put on some great aerial performances while chasing
Red-winged Blackbirds. ;-)
The Dump Road was very quiet, but thankfully Falcon was more productive:
several Cactus Wrens sat right up along with a couple of Black-throated
Sparrows, a Roadrunner performed famously right next to the car (never mind
I was messin' with him by cooing :)), and in the primitive camping area one
little bush gave us cracking views of Pyrrhuloxia, Verdin, and my first ever
Black-tailed Gnatcatchers for the park!
We went back to Salineno for one last river/feeder watch, then headed back
towards the Inn, stopping at Bentsen on the way in hopes of an Altamira
Oriole at least, but Gary managed to spot a Clay-colored Thrush while I was
checking us in, and thanks to a tip from Ranger Roy at the Gatehouse Feeders
we picked up a wintering Groove-billed Ani! On the way home we stopped at
the Green Parakeet staging area at 10th and Dove to at least pick up ONE
more lifer!
Bird List (those in brackets are birds they saw but I didn't.):
Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
Great Egret Ardea alba
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Osprey Pandion haliaetus
[White-tailed Kite]
Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii
Harris's Hawk Parabuteo unicinctus
White-tailed Hawk Geranoaetus albicaudatus
Gray Hawk Buteo plagiatus
Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus
Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
[Solitary Sandpiper]
Rock Pigeon Columba livia
Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
Inca Dove Columbina inca
Greater Roadrunner Geococcyx californianus
Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris
Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis
Ringed Kingfisher Megaceryle torquata
Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons
Ladder-backed Woodpecker Picoides scalaris
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
American Kestrel Falco sparverius
Green Parakeet Aratinga holochlora
Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans
Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher Pyrocephalus rubinus
Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus
Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus
[Scissor-tailed Flycatcher]
Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
White-eyed Vireo Vireo griseus
Green Jay Cyanocorax yncas
Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
Black-crested Titmouse Baeolophus atricristatus
Verdin Auriparus flaviceps
House Wren Troglodytes aedon
Bewick's Wren Thryomanes bewickii
Cactus Wren Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Polioptila melanura
Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula
[Clay-colored Thrush]
Long-billed Thrasher Toxostoma longirostre
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Orange-crowned Warbler Oreothlypis celata
Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata
Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
Black-throated Sparrow Amphispiza bilineata
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
Pyrrhuloxia Cardinalis sinuatus
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
[American Goldfinch]
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
65 SPECIES (all-inclusive)
Mary Beth Stowe
Alamo, TX
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