Weslaco Christmas Bird Count, 12/29/07

Honey and I covered the Llano Grande flood channel as usual for the Weslaco Christmas Bird Count. Birding ws a little slow, with passerines hard to come by. We had only 92 species for the day in our area. But the other areas came through for a preliminary count total of 164 species. Lots of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks greeted us.



This Fulvous Whistling Duck was the only one seen on the count.



We got a few other good birds like Groove-billed Ani, Burrowing Owl and Sprague's Pipit but our best bird was this Short-eared Owl. I had found it the afternoon before and was lucky to refind it for the count.



Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 1955
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 1
Gadwall 15
Mottled Duck 2
Blue-winged Teal 26
Northern Shoveler 530
Green-winged Teal 96
Ruddy Duck 3
Least Grebe 6
Pied-billed Grebe 1
American White Pelican 134
Neotropic Cormorant 12
Double-crested Cormorant 9
Great Blue Heron 53
Great Egret 7
Snowy Egret 17
Little Blue Heron 2
Tricolored Heron 2
Cattle Egret 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 14
Turkey Vulture 25
Osprey 1
White-tailed Kite 2
Northern Harrier 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Harris's Hawk 4
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Kestrel 8
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 2
Common Moorhen 32
American Coot 34
Killdeer 32
Black-necked Stilt 48
American Avocet 85
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Long-billed Curlew 27
Least Sandpiper 97
Stilt Sandpiper 61
Long-billed Dowitcher 251
Caspian Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 34
Mourning Dove 27
Common Ground-Dove 3
Groove-billed Ani 6
Burrowing Owl 1
Short-eared Owl 1
Common Pauraque 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 2
Eastern Phoebe 2
Vermilion Flycatcher 2
Great Kiskadee 6
Tropical Kingbird 2
Loggerhead Shrike 3
Tree Swallow 28
House Wren 6
Marsh Wren 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Northern Mockingbird 5
Long-billed Thrasher 1
American Pipit 105
Orange-crowned Warbler 12
Common Yellowthroat 65
Olive Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 50
Lincoln's Sparrow 32
Swamp Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 35
Great-tailed Grackle 40
Brown-headed Cowbird 3