Willacy County, 4/11/10

With it a bit breezy and drippy outside this morning I decided I would head over to Willacy County to see if I could find a few migrants for my county list. I did well with 124 species on the day and got about ten or so new county birds. Unfortunately I didn't find out about Scarlet's Black-vented Oriole till after I got home. So it's out to the convention center on SPI tomorrow morning.

One of the new Willacy County birds I added to my list was Prothonotary Warbler.



Notice it has a bit of rusty coloration on its face. I'm not sure if this is natural or maybe pollen. Another had much more of this coloration.





Also new for my county list was this Yellow-headed Blackbird.



I had several good birds on the Nature Trail in Port Mansfield including Summer Tanager, Yellow-throated Vireo, Blue-winged, Prothonotary, Black-and-white and Hooded warblers and these flyover Whimbrels.



Also on this trail was one of ten migrant Grasshopper Sparrows I saw during the day.



New for my year list was Wilson's Plover.



Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 20
Gadwall 1
American Wigeon 25
Mottled Duck 6
Blue-winged Teal 6
Northern Shoveler 5
Ruddy Duck 20
Wild Turkey 2
Northern Bobwhite 5
Least Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Anhinga 3
Great Blue Heron 3
Snowy Egret 5
Tricolored Heron 3
Reddish Egret 5
Cattle Egret 60
White Ibis 100
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 10
Osprey 1
Harris's Hawk 6
Swainson's Hawk 2
White-tailed Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Crested Caracara 3
Merlin 1
Black-bellied Plover 5
Wilson's Plover 2
Killdeer 1
Black-necked Stilt 25
American Avocet 10
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Willet 15
Lesser Yellowlegs 20
Upland Sandpiper 5
Whimbrel 12
Long-billed Curlew 2
Ruddy Turnstone 10
Sanderling 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper 15
Western Sandpiper 5
Least Sandpiper X
Dunlin 50
Long-billed Dowitcher 15
Laughing Gull X
Ring-billed Gull 10
Least Tern 4
Gull-billed Tern 6
Caspian Tern 1
Forster's Tern 15
Royal Tern 4
Sandwich Tern 8
Rock Pigeon 6
Eurasian Collared-Dove 20
Mourning Dove X
Common Ground-Dove 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Barn Owl 1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 10
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 4
Vermilion Flycatcher 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Brown-crested Flycatcher 2
Great Kiskadee 8
Couch's Kingbird 12
Eastern Kingbird 1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 30
Loggerhead Shrike 8
White-eyed Vireo 5
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Horned Lark 20
Purple Martin 20
Tree Swallow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1
Bank Swallow 2
Cliff Swallow 15
Cave Swallow 3
Barn Swallow 200
Black-crested Titmouse 1
Cactus Wren 2
Bewick's Wren 2
House Wren 2
Northern Mockingbird 12
Long-billed Thrasher 1
Curve-billed Thrasher 1
European Starling 10
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) 1
Black-and-white Warbler 3
Prothonotary Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 8
Hooded Warbler 1
Summer Tanager 2
Olive Sparrow 4
Cassin's Sparrow 8
Clay-colored Sparrow 1
Lark Sparrow 10
Savannah Sparrow 10
Grasshopper Sparrow 10
Lincoln's Sparrow 8
Northern Cardinal 4
Pyrrhuloxia 1
Indigo Bunting 10
Painted Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird X
Eastern Meadowlark 10
Yellow-headed Blackbird 1
Great-tailed Grackle X
Bronzed Cowbird 15
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Orchard Oriole 2
Hooded Oriole 3
Altamira Oriole 1
House Sparrow 15