Next on the list was Sabal Palm Sanctuary. Driving along the entrance road just south of the levee I heard the song of the Yellow-green Vireo Mary Gustafson had discovered last week. The song is quite similar to Red-eyed but slower with a few burry notes like Yellow-throated. Not a great pic but you can see it's got a lot of yellow below.
I wanted to see the Gray-crowned Yellowthroat that has been present for the last few years. I saw one there several years ago and saw my first there back in 1988. No luck today. I ran into a birder who said he saw it singing from a tree near the far end of the boardwalk. I walked back there and found a singing yellowthroat in a tree at the end of the boardwalk. Unfortunately it was a Common Yellowthroat. Hmmmm. I sure run into this a lot.
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 4
Mottled Duck 3
Plain Chachalaca 10
Least Grebe 6
Great Blue Heron 2
Green Heron 6
Common Moorhen 3
American Coot 2
White-winged Dove 1
Mourning Dove 10
Common Ground-Dove 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 8
Groove-billed Ani 1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 2
Ringed Kingfisher 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 5
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 5
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1
Brown-crested Flycatcher 3
Great Kiskadee 5
Couch's Kingbird 2
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Yellow-green Vireo 1
Green Jay 2
Black-crested Titmouse 4
Carolina Wren 8
Veery 1
Swainson's Thrush 2
Northern Mockingbird 2
Long-billed Thrasher 5
Cedar Waxwing 100
Yellow Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
American Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Canada Warbler 1
Olive Sparrow 8
Northern Cardinal 4
Painted Bunting 1
Great-tailed Grackle 10
Bronzed Cowbird 3
Baltimore Oriole 2
Lesser Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 3
I thought about heading home at this point but decided South Padre Island might be worth a try. It turned out pretty good. Quite a few warblers around like this really sharp Black-and white Warbler.
There were also lots of Empids and dozens of Eastern Wood Pewees. For the third week in a row I fownd a Black-billed Cuckoo. This was my first for cameron County.
Earlier in the day birders had discovered another Yellow-green Vireo at the convention center. I only caught a glimpse of it. Interesting was a huge flock of Black Terns resting on the mudflats behind the convention center.
Reddish Egret 3
Cattle Egret 15
Roseate Spoonbill 2
Osprey 1
Black-bellied Plover 4
Semipalmated Plover 2
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Willet 2
Ruddy Turnstone 10
Sanderling 5
Least Sandpiper 5
White-rumped Sandpiper 4
Baird's Sandpiper 3
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Short-billed Dowitcher 25
Laughing Gull 100
Franklin's Gull 10
Royal Tern 30
Sandwich Tern 100
Forster's Tern 50
Least Tern 5
Black Tern 2500
Rock Pigeon 10
Eurasian Collared-Dove 6
Inca Dove 4
Black-billed Cuckoo 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 25
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1
Alder Flycatcher 2
Least Flycatcher 4
Brown-crested Flycatcher 1
Couch's Kingbird 1
Western Kingbird 5
Eastern Kingbird 15
White-eyed Vireo 1
Philadelphia Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Yellow-green Vireo 1
Bank Swallow 20
Cliff Swallow 20
Barn Swallow 200
Black-crested Titmouse 2
Veery 1
Gray-cheeked Thrush 1
Swainson's Thrush 5
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
Cedar Waxwing 80
Tennessee Warbler 2
Northern Parula 2
Yellow Warbler 3
Chestnut-sided Warbler 2
Magnolia Warbler 12
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 3
Bay-breasted Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 4
American Redstart 10
Ovenbird 1
Northern Waterthrush 1
Kentucky Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 4
Summer Tanager 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 4
Great-tailed Grackle 10
Orchard Oriole 8
Baltimore Oriole 10
House Sparrow 5
I finished the day with this pair of Aplomado falcons along Hwy 100. Turned out to be a good day of birding in the valley.
2 comments:
great post, brought me right back to my trip to the Rio Grande Valley, I saw quite a few of those same birds, falcons, crows, and gray-crowned yellowthroat! I can't wait to go back.
Thank you. Yup this is a great area for birding. I came down here the first time in 1978 and moved here in 1995. It's hot, sweaty and buggy but good for lots of birds.
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