Yellow-green Vireo at Canon road, 8-4-10

With many of the good Valley birding sites still underwater because of Hurricane Alex, this morning I decided to head over to Canon Road in SW Cameron County. Actually my goal was to look for darners but I was birding all the time also. A couple of Yellow-billed Cuckoos were raising quite a ruckus. As I checked them out, a scruffy Yellow-green Vireo responding to my pygmy owl tooting. There have been few reports of them this summer.





Here's one of the upset Yellow-billed Cuckoos.







I kept count of calling Tropical Kingbird as I walked and drove up Canon Road and across the cane field and then back south along the irrigation ditch west of Canon Road. I had a personal one day high of sixteen Tropical Kingbirds. Years ago the electrical substation on Canon Road was "the" place to see them in the RGV. Now there seems to be more than ever of them. But I didn't get any pics of them. So here's a Painted Bunting.



Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 2
Great Blue Heron 1
Cattle Egret 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
White-winged Dove 120
Mourning Dove 15
Common Ground-Dove 12
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 10
Groove-billed Ani 6
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 3
Brown-crested Flycatcher 3
Great Kiskadee 3
Tropical Kingbird 16
Couch's Kingbird 5
Tropical/Couch's Kingbird 8
White-eyed Vireo 4
Yellow-green Vireo 1
Green Jay 1
Purple Martin 3
Bank Swallow 20
Black-crested Titmouse 3
Carolina Wren 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Long-billed Thrasher 1
Olive Sparrow 10
Northern Cardinal 1
Painted Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 2
Great-tailed Grackle 4
Bronzed Cowbird 10
Lesser Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 1