Frontera Audubon Thicket, 10/20/07

It was a delightful morning at Frontera Audubon Thicket in Weslaco. Warblers are still low in numbers. We're waiting on our first cold front of the fall season which is supposed to blow into town on Monday. Best bird was this young male Vermillion Flycatcher. I think it's a first for the park. I need to update the park list. It's somewhere around 190 species. A flyover Northern Harrier was unusual also. Fifteen Scissor-tailed Flycatches were headed south.



Here's a Pale-banded Crescent (I think).



Plain Chachalaca 22
Northern Harrier 1
Killdeer 1
Rock Pigeon 3
White-winged Dove 50
Mourning Dove 2
Inca Dove 15
White-tipped Dove 8
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 4
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 8
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2
Vermilion Flycatcher 1
Couch's Kingbird 4
Eastern Kingbird 3
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 15
White-eyed Vireo 5
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 85
Black-crested Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Clay-colored Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 6
Long-billed Thrasher 2
Curve-billed Thrasher 3
European Starling 1
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 2
American Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Wilson's Warbler 3
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 150
Great-tailed Grackle 25
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
House Sparrow 3