The Rio Grande Birding Festival field trip to Resaca de la Palma, had a Tropical Parula this morning in a mixed flock in the trees in the parking lot. Also got the see the nearby Amazon Kingfisher! eBird list for the park is below. Mark Scheuerman Sugar Land, TX (Currently at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival) Resaca de la Palma SP WBC (Brownsville) (LTC 048), Cameron, US-TX Nov 9, 2013 7:00 AM - 10:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 5.0 mile(s) Comments: RGVBF Easy Resaca Field Trip. 42 species Mottled Duck 2 Blue-winged Teal 2 Plain Chachalaca 2 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 1 Turkey Vulture 4 Cooper's Hawk 1 Harris's Hawk 2 White-tailed Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 White-winged Dove 25 Mourning Dove 20 Inca Dove 3 Common Ground-Dove 3 Belted Kingfisher 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 5 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 4 American Kestrel 2 Merlin 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 1 Loggerhead Shrike 1 White-eyed Vireo 3 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Green Jay 25 Black-crested Titmouse 4 House Wren 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6 Long-billed Thrasher 3 Northern Mockingbird 3 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Orange-crowned Warbler 6 Nashville Warbler 1 Tropical Parula 1 Similar to N Parula, but with a black mask from the bill to behind the eye and no white crescents above/below the eye and more extensive yellow-orange on throat and belly. Seen at close range only briefly and not photographed. Seen in the trees in and around the parking lot. Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 3 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Great-tailed Grackle 40 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15622935 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/tx) Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner