Frontera Audubon Thicket, 4/28/07

Birding started slow this warm, muggy morning at Frontera Audubon Thicket in Weslaco. I picked up a couple of warblers here and there and just kept making loops around the 14 acre park Things picked up later in the morning and by noon I had had fifteen species of warblers. I went back in the afternoon and got a couple more for a very respcectable 17 warbler day. However bird of the day goes to this Black-billed Cuckoo. Despite the poor pic you can still see his black bill and lack of rufous color.



Kentucky Warbler is always a hard one for me to find in Hidago County so I was happy to get this one for the year list.



Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 10
Plain Chachalaca 15
Great Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Gray Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Laughing Gull 13
White-winged Dove 8
Mourning Dove 1
Inca Dove 6
White-tipped Dove 8
Green Parakeet 2
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2
Groove-billed Ani 1
Chuck-will's-widow 2
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 5
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Brown-crested Flycatcher 4
Great Kiskadee 4
Tropical Kingbird 2
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 4
Green Jay 1
Purple Martin 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 100
Barn Swallow 5
Black-crested Titmouse 3
Carolina Wren 3
Veery 2
Swainson's Thrush 4
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 2
Long-billed Thrasher 2
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Golden-winged Warbler 1
Tennessee Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 4
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 2
American Redstart 1
Ovenbird 1
Kentucky Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Wilson's Warbler 2
Canada Warbler 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 5
Summer Tanager 1
Olive Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-breasted Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
Painted Bunting 2
Great-tailed Grackle 5
Bronzed Cowbird 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Baltimore Oriole 3
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 5