Sparrow Road, FM 2221, 1/5/10

Yesterday for the Bentsen CBC, I covered what is know as the Sparrow Road, FM 2221. It lived up to its name with plenty of sparrows but not a whole lot else. Sparrows are pretty hard to find in the RGV during most winters so I'm enjoying the opportunity to see a few. I've had 13 species in just the last three days. Best bird for me was this female Lark Bunting.



Clay-colored Sparrows don't get all the credit they deserve for being such a sharp little bird.



Black-throated Sparrows are pretty cute too.



Here's a Vesper Sparow.



A small flock Long-billed Curlews came up close.



Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 5
Northern Harrier 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 2
White-tailed Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 3
American Kestrel 3
Killdeer 14
Long-billed Curlew 8
Mourning Dove 30
Common Ground-Dove 6
Greater Roadrunner 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 6
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Kiskadee 4
Loggerhead Shrike 5
White-eyed Vireo 3
Green Jay 1
Verdin 7
Bewick's Wren 1
House Wren 8
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6
Northern Mockingbird 30
Curve-billed Thrasher 2
Orange-crowned Warbler 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1
Cassin's Sparrow 25
Clay-colored Sparrow 3
Vesper Sparrow 43
Lark Sparrow 48
Black-throated Sparrow 5
Lark Bunting 1
Savannah Sparrow 33
Grasshopper Sparrow 5
Lincoln's Sparrow 10
Northern Cardinal 2
Pyrrhuloxia 38
Red-winged Blackbird 16
Western Meadowlark 65