Back on January 27, someone was birding in Panther Canyon in New Braunfels' Landa Park when she found and photographed an unfamiliar bird. She posted the photo on a Facebook group called "What's this bird?" and it turned out to be a female Elegant Trogon. The local birding community finally heard about it on 2/4 and was able to refind the bird. It was seen again yesterday. So even though I saw the Frontera Elegant Trogan back in 2005, I decided to get up early for the four and a half hour drive. After a couple of hours the assembled group found the bird and I got to photograph this 7th Texas record. Great bird!
Elegant Trogon is a well known species that normally only occurs in SE Arizona in the United States. But it's common in Mexico and the recent the cold weather probably forced this one down out of the mountains. The 2005 trogon at Frontera Audubon in Weslaco also occurred after some very cold weather.
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