[texbirds] some good birding in neighborhood, Edinburg, TX
- From: txbrush@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 14:55:35 -0700 (PDT)
Also saw Mourning Warblers (2), Magnolia Warbler, Wilson's Warbler,
Philadelphia Vireo, and an Empidonax in back yard in the early afternoon.
home, Hidalgo, US-TX
May 11, 2012 8:20 AM - 9:10 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments: walked around the block and the golf course west of the
canal--overcast, misty. low-mid-70s, very humid, standing water on golf course
from last night's (and earlier) rain--all warblers on golf course; all except
redstart in flock in Texas ebony
25 species (+1 other taxa)
Plain Chachalaca 5
Neotropic Cormorant 2 flyovers
Green Heron 3 in neighborhood
Killdeer 2
Solitary Sandpiper 1 foraging in pond back of house
Lesser Yellowlegs 2 same as Solitary--one attacked/supplanted by male
grackle
White-winged Dove 25
Mourning Dove 8
Inca Dove 2
Lesser Nighthawk 1
Chimney Swift 11
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 8
Empidonax sp. 2 one with warbler flock, other not (latter white and round
head=Least?)
Brown-crested Flycatcher 4
Great Kiskadee 5
Tropical Kingbird 1 calling on golf course
Western Kingbird 1
Loggerhead Shrike 1 carrying food to big Texas ebony near pond
Purple Martin 7
Common Starling 10
Nashville Warbler 2
American Redstart 1 female
Blackburnian Warbler 2 male and female/young male
Yellow Warbler 1 male
Great-tailed Grackle 18
House Sparrow 20
Regards,
Tim Brush
Edinburg, TX
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