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Among the six species of warblers were seven Mourning Warblers, all in juvenile plumage. The broken eyering fool some birders into thinking they are MacGillivray's.
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Northern Waterthushes are starting to go through.
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Saw three Canada Warblers today. This one was at Frontera two days ago.
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This scruffy male Indigo Bunting seems a bit early.
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I tried again to get some better pictures of Neotropical Bluets but they were always just out of range and much more active than the Blue-ringed Dancers who always pose for photos.
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Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Hidalgo, US-TX
Aug 30, 2011 8:20 AM - 12:10 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
73 species
Blue-winged Teal 60
Plain Chachalaca 4
Neotropic Cormorant 5
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 25
Cattle Egret 2
Green Heron 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1
White-faced Ibis 2
Roseate Spoonbill 7
Turkey Vulture 1
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Gray Hawk 1
American Coot 20
Killdeer 3
Black-necked Stilt 70
American Avocet 3
Upland Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 30
Stilt Sandpiper 40
Long-billed Dowitcher 120
Laughing Gull 7
Gull-billed Tern 3
Black Tern 4
Forster's Tern 3
Black Skimmer 1
White-winged Dove 70
Mourning Dove 5
Common Ground-Dove 5
White-tipped Dove 2
Groove-billed Ani 25
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 1
Ringed Kingfisher 1
Green Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 6
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 6
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Alder Flycatcher 4
Least Flycatcher 2
Brown-crested Flycatcher 2
Great Kiskadee 10
Tropical Kingbird 1
Couch's Kingbird 5
Eastern Kingbird 3
White-eyed Vireo 3
Green Jay 4
Purple Martin 2
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 5
Cave Swallow 35
Black-crested Titmouse 3
Carolina Wren 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Clay-colored Thrush 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Long-billed Thrasher 1
Northern Waterthrush 1
Black-and-white Warbler 3
Mourning Warbler 7
Yellow Warbler 40
Canada Warbler 3
Yellow-breasted Chat 8
Olive Sparrow 8
Northern Cardinal 1
Blue Grosbeak 2
Indigo Bunting 1 Male, photographed at Willow 1
Painted Bunting 3
Dickcissel 12
Red-winged Blackbird 25
Great-tailed Grackle 5
Lesser Goldfinch 1