[texbirds-freelists] [texbirds] Spotted Towhee & Scarlet Tanager at Sabal Palm Sanctuary

  • From: Seth Patterson <seth@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:31:53 -0500

Good Afternoon TexBirders,

David Benn and I took a stroll around the Palm Forest this morning and
encountered a sprinkling of migrants and other species. Of particular note
was a Spotted Towhee, which may be the first sighting of this species here
at Sabal, as well as both Scarlet and Summer Tanagers and a couple of
Northern Parulas working in the blooming retama trees.

Here is a full list of species I personally sighted at Sabal Palm Sanctuary
today:

   - Gadwall
   - Mottled Duck
   - Blue-winged Teal
   - Redhead
   - Ruddy Duck
   - Plain Chachalaca
   - Least Grebe
   - Pied-billed Grebe
   - Great Blue Heron
   - Great Egret
   - Common Gallinule
   - American Coot
   - Mourning Dove
   - White-tipped Dove
   - Yellow-billed Cuckoo
   - Buff-bellied Hummingbird
   - Golden-fronted Woodpecker
   - Ladder-backed Woodpecker
   - Brown-crested Flycatcher
   - Great Kiskadee
   - Couch's Kingbird
   - White-eyed Vireo
   - Green Jay
   - Black-crested Titmouse
   - Carolina Wren
   - Northern Mockingbird
   - Long-billed Thrasher
   - Orange-crowned Warbler
   - Northern Parula
   - Olive Sparrow
   - Spotted Towhee
   - Summer Tanager
   - Scarlet Tanager
   - Northern Cardinal
   - Hooded Oriole

Link to eBird report: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S10408105

Happy Birding!

- Seth


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