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An unusual peekaboo pose.
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A half dozen gaudy Magnolia Warblers were about.
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My best bird of the morning was a MacGillivray's Warbler. I didn't get a pic of this western species but I did manage a poor one of his eastern congerer, Mourning Warbler.
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Another good bird for the day was my first singing Bell's Vireo. I've seen a few on them in the Valley but they've always been silent.
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Here's a teneral male Common Green Darner.
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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 10
Plain Chachalaca 12
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2
Broad-winged Hawk 2
Gray Hawk 1
Laughing Gull 4
Rock Pigeon 2
White-winged Dove 10
Mourning Dove 1
Inca Dove 2
White-tipped Dove 8
Green Parakeet 7
Groove-billed Ani 1
Common Pauraque 1
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 5
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 10
Green Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 5
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Least Flycatcher 5
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Brown-crested Flycatcher 2
Great Kiskadee 3
Couch's Kingbird 5
White-eyed Vireo 3
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Green Jay 1
Purple Martin 2
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 10
Cliff Swallow 15
Black-crested Titmouse 4
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 2
Clay-colored Thrush 1
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
Long-billed Thrasher 3
Nashville Warbler 4
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1
Magnolia Warbler 6
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Ovenbird 1
Mourning Warbler 1
MacGillivray's Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Canada Warbler 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 2
Olive Sparrow 2
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 6
Painted Bunting 4
Great-tailed Grackle 12
Bronzed Cowbird 1
Orchard Oriole 3
Altamira Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 3
House Sparrow 2