Sunday, January 18, 2009

Hook-billed Kite at Anzalduas County Park, 1/18/09

I ran into JD Cortez this morning At Anzaldulas County Park south of Mission in Hidalgo County. We did a couple of laps around the park finally picking up the wintering Prairie Warbler, a female Black-throated Gray Warbler, a couple of Northern Beardless Tyrannulets and a couple of Pine Siskins. So we were doing pretty good when a floppy-winged raptor approached us. We enjoyed great looks a this Hook-billed Kite. Notice how the bases of the winges are "pinched in" contrasting with the broad winges and tail.

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Anzalduas is a great place for Pine Warbler in The Winter. Here's a bright one.

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We added a Black Phoebe to round out a nice morning.

Greater White-fronted Goose 7
Gadwall 10
American Wigeon 2
Mallard (Mexican) 4
Blue-winged Teal 2
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 20
Anhinga 2
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 1
Little Blue Heron 1
White-faced Ibis 1
Turkey Vulture 30
Hook-billed Kite 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
American Kestrel 4
Common Moorhen 6
American Coot 40
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Ring-billed Gull 1
Rock Pigeon 15
Mourning Dove 2
Inca Dove 3
White-tipped Dove 4
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 8
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 2
Black Phoebe 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Vermilion Flycatcher 1
Great Kiskadee 3
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 2
Green Jay 6
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Black-crested Titmouse 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8
Eastern Bluebird 6
Clay-colored Thrush 1
Northern Mockingbird 5
European Starling 6
Orange-crowned Warbler 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler 15
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) 1
Black-throated Gray Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Pine Warbler 8
Prairie Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 5
Chipping Sparrow 12
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Eastern Meadowlark 35
Pine Siskin 2
American Goldfinch 1

6 comments:

Mel said...

Lovely Pine Warble!
Fun list :)

Owlman said...

Awesome pics and pretty impressive list.

Anonymous said...

Wowww, fantastic.

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