Willacy County, 5/4/11

With the north winds continuing for another day, I figured heading up to Willacy County to look for migrants and work on the county list might be a good idea. Turned out great as I added eight new species to my Willacy County list (now at 257) and several new for the eBird county list. This Veery was new for the county.



Scarlet Tanager was also new for the county.



Lots of Chesnut-sided Warblers about.



Not new for the county, this Yellow Warbler looks almost bright enough to be the Caribbean race.



This Wild Turkey tried to attract my attention away from migrant passerines.



Finished the day with 109 species!

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 20
Northern Shoveler 8
Lesser Scaup 4
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Wild Turkey 2
Brown Pelican 5
Great Blue Heron 5
Snowy Egret 8
Tricolored Heron 1
Reddish Egret 1
Cattle Egret 20
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1
White Ibis 30
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 10
Harris's Hawk 1
Swainson's Hawk 3
Crested Caracara 3
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 1
Black-necked Stilt 6
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Ruddy Turnstone 8
Sanderling 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Least Sandpiper 3
White-rumped Sandpiper 2
Dunlin 5
Stilt Sandpiper 5
Wilson's Phalarope 150
Laughing Gull 50
Franklin's Gull 150
Least Tern 8
Gull-billed Tern 15
Caspian Tern 1
Royal Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 3
Eurasian Collared-Dove 10
White-winged Dove 1
Mourning Dove 10
Common Ground-Dove 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Barn Owl 1
Common Nighthawk 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 15
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 10
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 2
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 6
Brown-crested Flycatcher 10
Great Kiskadee 1
Couch's Kingbird 2
Eastern Kingbird 2
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 5
Loggerhead Shrike 3
White-eyed Vireo 3
Warbling Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Green Jay 3
Horned Lark 15
Purple Martin 1
Bank Swallow 20
Barn Swallow 100
Cliff Swallow 2
Black-crested Titmouse 2
Verdin 1
Cactus Wren 2
Bewick's Wren 2
Veery 1
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 3
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 5
Long-billed Thrasher 3
European Starling 5
Tennessee Warbler 3
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 12
Chestnut-sided Warbler 6
Magnolia Warbler 13
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 2
American Redstart 10
Ovenbird 4
Northern Waterthrush 3
Kentucky Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 8
Hooded Warbler 1
Olive Sparrow 2
Lark Sparrow 20
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Scarlet Tanager 2
Northern Cardinal 5
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Blue Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 5
Painted Bunting 2
Dickcissel 4
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Eastern Meadowlark 5
Great-tailed Grackle 50
Bronzed Cowbird 10
Brown-headed Cowbird 20
Orchard Oriole 3
Hooded Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 2
Lesser Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 10