Frontera Audubon Thicket, 3/3/07

Despite a really perfect spring morning, birding was kind of dull this morning at Frontera Audubon Thicket. Early March is the most boring time of the birding year for me. Many of the wintering birds are headed back north while spring migrants and summer breeders have yet to arrive. Only five species of warblers today is the least I've seen since last August.

This Crested Caracara flyover is the first recorded for Frontera and the 190th species for the park.



This adult Gray Hawk was just three blocks to the east. He is a regular member of our neighborhhood.



Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 9
Plain Chachalaca 15
Turkey Vulture 4
Gray Hawk 1
Crested Caracara 1
White-winged Dove 4
Mourning Dove 2
Inca Dove 12
White-tipped Dove 12
Green Parakeet 3
Red-crowned Parrot 1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 12
Great Kiskadee 8
White-eyed Vireo 4
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Black-crested Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
Long-billed Thrasher 2
Curve-billed Thrasher 2
Orange-crowned Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Ovenbird 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Wilson's Warbler 1
Olive Sparrow 3
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Red-winged Blackbird 80
Great-tailed Grackle 3
Lesser Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 5
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