Thursday, March 25, 2010

More SPI, 3/25/10

Another cold front blew ino the Rio Grande Valley this morning so I headed out to South Padre Island to see what was about. Most of the Spring Break debauchery is over so its rather peaceful out there now. Nothing too exciting but I did see ten species of warblers and several new birds for the year. This is my FOS Tennessee warbler.

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Most of the birds were either at the Valley Land Fund's Sheepshead lot or at the Convention Center where I saw this plucky little Hooded Warbler.

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Several Northern Parulas were feeding on something in the dandelions.

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I really had a difficult time getting good photos though many of the birds were rather close. This Black-throated Greenwarbler refused to come out into the open.

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This female Black-and-White Warbler was more cooperative.

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This Grasshopper Sparrow was a real surprise. Many of them winter in Mexico so we do see some each spring but I wasn't expecting one today.

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This Ruby-throated Hummingbird was attracted to the bottlebrush.

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Brown Pelican X
Double-crested Cormorant X
Tricolored Heron X
American Kestrel 1
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Caspian Tern X
Royal Tern X
Sandwich Tern 3
Black Skimmer X
Rock Pigeon X
Eurasian Collared-Dove X
Mourning Dove X
Inca Dove X
Common Ground-Dove 1
Chimney Swift 3
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Great Kiskadee 1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 10
White-eyed Vireo 5
Purple Martin 1
Tree Swallow 25
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Bank Swallow 3
Cliff Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 100
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 4
Tennessee Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Nashville Warbler 5
Northern Parula 7
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 8
Black-throated Green Warbler 4
Black-and-white Warbler 6
Common Yellowthroat 1
Hooded Warbler 2
Wilson's Warbler 1
Clay-colored Sparrow 3
Lark Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 4
Grasshopper Sparrow 1
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird X
Great-tailed Grackle X
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Orchard Oriole 1
House Sparrow X

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