Frontera Audubon Thicket, 4/27/09

We finally got a little rain last night to ease our sever drought. The local birds were all singing their heads off and a few migrants were around. Not a lot of birds but good diversity. Philadelphia Vireo passes though in small numbers each spring.



Here's a stunning Chestnut-sided Warbler, one of fourteen warblers species I saw this morning.



Fuzzy pic of a brilliant Golden-winged Warbler.



Black-throated Green Warbler.



One of seven Painted Buntings.



Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 10
Plain Chachalaca 15
Snowy Egret 1
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Laughing Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 4
White-winged Dove 10
Inca Dove 8
White-tipped Dove 10
Chimney Swift 10
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 6
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Brown-crested Flycatcher 5
Couch's Kingbird 2
White-eyed Vireo 4
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 3
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Green Jay 1
Bank Swallow 10
Cliff Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 20
Black-crested Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 4
House Wren 1
Northern Mockingbird 4
Long-billed Thrasher 6
Curve-billed Thrasher 1
Golden-winged Warbler 3
Nashville Warbler 2
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 2
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 2
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Cerulean Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 4
American Redstart 1
Ovenbird 1
Mourning Warbler 1
MacGillivray's Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Yellow-breasted Chat 3
Olive Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 2
Painted Bunting 7
Dickcissel 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Great-tailed Grackle 6
Baltimore Oriole 1
Lesser Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 6