[texbirds] Sugar House, Delta Lake, 8/6/12
- From: antshrike1@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 22:17:22 -0400 (EDT)
This morning I checked out the area wet spots in eastern Hidalgo County looking
for good county stuff. There were birds aplenty.
Sugar House Pond on FM 1425 north of FM 107 - Water has dropped a bit but still
only marginal mudflats. Despite this there were still several thousand birds
present. Please don't drive up on the dike.
Sugar House pond on 1425, Hidalgo, US-TX
Aug 6, 2012 8:35 AM - 10:05 AM
Protocol: Stationary
29 species (+1 other taxa)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 100
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 35
American Wigeon 1 drake present all summer
Mottled Duck 5
Blue-winged Teal 10
Redhead 5 Present all summer, two drakes, three hens
Ruddy Duck 44 counted
Least Grebe 5
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Snowy Egret 1
White Ibis 2
White-faced Ibis 1
Common Gallinule 1
American Coot 144 counted
Killdeer 3
Black-necked Stilt 460 carefully counted, not unusual for this time of year
American Avocet 15
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 300
Semipalmated Sandpiper 50
Least Sandpiper 50
Baird's Sandpiper 3
Pectoral Sandpiper 3
Stilt Sandpiper 500
peep sp. 100
Long-billed Dowitcher 10
Wilson's Phalarope 1500 Normal number for this time of year.
Laughing Gull 1
Black Tern 1
Delta Lake on FM 88 - The water level is low making for the best mudflats I've
ever seen at this site. It is now possible to walk several hundred yards along
the northeast shoreline. There were also good flats on the west side. I
refound Tim Brush's juvenile dark Reddish Egret (west of highway) and got my
first county Semipalmated Plovers for the year. A flock of Buff-breasted
Sandpipers was nice.
Delta Lake (LTC 008), Hidalgo, US-TX
Aug 6, 2012 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
34 species
Neotropic Cormorant 30
American White Pelican 25
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 10
Snowy Egret 6
Tricolored Heron 2
Reddish Egret 1
Green Heron 2
White Ibis 1
Roseate Spoonbill 20
American Coot 1
Semipalmated Plover 2
Killdeer 5
Black-necked Stilt 50
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 50
Western Sandpiper 150
Least Sandpiper 450
Baird's Sandpiper 5
Stilt Sandpiper 200
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 20
Long-billed Dowitcher 240
Wilson's Phalarope 10
Laughing Gull 320
Gull-billed Tern 1
Caspian Tern 7
Black Tern 1
Forster's Tern 3
Mourning Dove 1
Common Nighthawk 6
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Great-tailed Grackle X
Hargill - There's still some water on 1st and Lincoln but no birds.
Dan Jones, Weslaco
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