Progreso Lakes Yard, 3/26/19

A weak cool front was forecast for today so I thought after the warm breezy weather we might see a few spring migrants at our Progreso Lakes yard.  It didn't take long before the first good one showed up.  This is only our second Zone-tailed Hawk.

Later in the morning as the front hit, a migrating flock of 90 White Pelican were slowed by the north winds.

As I photographed the flock, I observed a raptor high above.  I was shocked to see it was a Swallow-tailed Kite.  It's only our second.  There's been quite a few reports over the past week.

The water in the resaca has been high this spring so I've seen few shorebirds.  Here's a Black-necked Stilt.

Cattle Egrets cruising by.

We have only one Common Gallinule but I see it every day.

I've seen four different Hooded Orioles the past two days.  This is a young male.

The Eastern Screech-Owl was purring up in the ash.

The bird bath was busy with the usual Orange-crowned Warblers and Lincoln's Sparrow.

I was surprised to come up with a total of 64 species for the day.

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (fulgens)  400

Muscovy Duck (Domestic type)  1

Lesser Scaup  3

Plain Chachalaca  2

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  30

Eurasian Collared-Dove  2

Inca Dove  3

White-tipped Dove  1

Mourning Dove  10

Chimney Swift  4

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  3

Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Northern)  2

Common Gallinule (American)  1

American Coot (Red-shielded)  3

Black-necked Stilt (Black-necked)  1

Killdeer  1

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Gull-billed Tern (Gull-billed)  1

Caspian Tern  2

Anhinga  1

Neotropic Cormorant  4

Double-crested Cormorant  8

American White Pelican  90

Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1

Snowy Egret  2

Cattle Egret (Western)  6

Green Heron  2

Black-crowned Night-Heron  2

Turkey Vulture  10

Swallow-tailed Kite  1

Swainson's Hawk  1

Zone-tailed Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Eastern Screech-Owl (McCall's)  1

Ringed Kingfisher  1

Golden-fronted Woodpecker (Northern)  2

Ladder-backed Woodpecker  1

Black Phoebe  1

Great Kiskadee  4

Tropical Kingbird  1

Couch's Kingbird  1

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher  1

Green Jay (Green)  1

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  10

Purple Martin  3

Tree Swallow  70

Barn Swallow (American)  5

Cliff Swallow (pyrrhonota Group)  70

Black-crested Titmouse  2

House Wren (Northern)  1

Carolina Wren (Northeast Mexico/South Texas)  1

Northern Mockingbird  5

European Starling  10

Olive Sparrow  1

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  1

Lincoln's Sparrow  1

Hooded Oriole (cucullatus/sennetti)  2

Altamira Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  20

Bronzed Cowbird (Bronzed)  2

Great-tailed Grackle  30

Orange-crowned Warbler  2

Common Yellowthroat  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

House Sparrow  2