South Padre Island, 10/28/10

North of here some good winter birds have been trickling in, things like Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper and Golden-crowned Kinglet. I was able to find the later of the three at the Convention Center on South Padre Island the other day. Golden-crowned Kinglet shows up in small numbers most falls but usually don't stay for the winter. I hope the other two show as they are quite rare down here.



I spent a couple of hours here as the front blew in. Every twenty or thirty minutes a new bird would show up. Here's a female Painted Bunting.



A Summer Tanager has been here a couple of weeks. Not sure it's been the same bird.



I also put in some time at the Valley Land Fund's Sheepshead lot. Good birds here included a Palm Warbler and late Western Kingbird and Scarlet Tanager.



I got ten species of warblers on the day including American Redstart and Black-throated Green.





Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 2
Blue-winged Teal 2
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Brown Pelican 20
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 2
Reddish Egret 1
Cattle Egret 6
Clapper Rail 1
Common Moorhen 3
American Coot 1
Black-bellied Plover 10
Semipalmated Plover 60
Piping Plover 20
Killdeer 1
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Willet 25
Long-billed Curlew 1
Marbled Godwit 4
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Sanderling 30
Least Sandpiper 25
Dunlin 25
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Laughing Gull 200
Franklin's Gull 20
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern 1
Royal Tern 700
Sandwich Tern 10
Rock Pigeon 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Mourning Dove 1
Inca Dove 4
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Ash-throated Flycatcher 1
Western Kingbird 1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 15
Golden-crowned Kinglet 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Gray Catbird 3
Northern Mockingbird 3
Tennessee Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Nashville Warbler 1
Northern Parula 4
Magnolia Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Palm Warbler (Western) 1
American Redstart 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
Summer Tanager 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 1
Indigo Bunting 10
Painted Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Great-tailed Grackle 50