[texbirds] Vireos/Warblers at Goliad State Park on Sunday

From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:04:45 -0700
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Greetings All:

I just got back to Lubbock - from a long trip down to the TOS meeting, the TOS 
meeting, and even longer trip back from the TOS meeting.

The meeting was wonderful, the trips were very good but one thing about this 
year's migratory bird movement, noticed by most, was that a good list could be 
generated by the end of the day but that a lot of work would probably have to 
be done along the way.  That's a slow way of saying: good diversity; low 
numbers.

During my return trip, however, I did luck into one very nice concentration of 
warblers - Goliad State Park, 8:30 to 10:30 AM,. 6 May 2012 - with good 
diversity and numbers.  The numbers reported are definitely lowball - I was not 
able to identify or cleanly count some of the 150-200 vireos/warblers that were 
working the foliage (from the lowest brush to the tallest canopy) 
bordering/over the mowed area along the river and the entire swarm had vanished 
by the end of my visit.  I only total 72 individual birds in the following list 
- there were at least another eighty vireo/warbler types in the foliage but 
with so much movement clean counts were not possible - they might well have all 
been Tennessee and Black-throated Green Warblers; this event represents the 
highest number of either of these species I have seen at a single inland site!


5 White-eyed Vireos
1 Yellow-throated Vireo

3 Blue-headed Vireos
1 Warbling Vireo

3 Red-eyed Vireos


2 Northern Waterthrushes
1 Swainson's Warbler

1 Blue-winged Warbler
2 Black-and-white Warblers
14 Tennessee Warblers
4 Nashville Warblers

3 Mourning Warblers
2 Common Yellowthroats
1 American Redstart
1 Northern Parula
4 Magnolia Warblers
1 Bay-breasted Warbler
1 Blackburnian Warbler

3 Yellow Warblers
2 Chestnut-sided Warblers
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler

13 Black-throated Green Warblers
1 Canada Warbler

2 Wilson's Warblers

This is nothing like a coastal 'fallout', obviously, but it was not too shabby 
for a couple of hours at an inland site!


Anthony Hewetson; L
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