I caught a glimpse of a Yellow-breasted Chat and played a recording hoping it might come out. Well it did and it spent the whole day singing and chasing stuff around the yard.
Other warblers included Common Yellowthroat, Black-throated Green, Tennessee and Yellow Warblers and a Northern Parula.
First birds of the morning was this hen Muscovy with her 14 babies.
Small numbers of orioles were a treat. We had Altamira, Baltimore, Orchard and Hooded. I'm still waiting for Bullock's.
At lunch I was sitting on about 60 species and thought I would try for a few more after I finished eating. Then a little cool front came wafting in with a noticeably cooler north breeze. Could this stop a few migrating birds? I kept wandering from the front yard to the back and picked up a few more. I got Blue-headed and Red-eyed Vireos and an Eastern Wood-Pewee.
Meanwhile back along the resaca I got two Spotted Sandpipers and a Silt Sandpiper.
Well, it was dinner time already and as Honey and I ate dinner I saw a Warbling Vireo through the window. This was bird number 73 for the day smashing our old one day record of 69. I was still missing some easy birds and there was a good chance of an evening hawk flight so I got back to work. I got a singing Lesser Goldfinch and a late American Kestrel.
I also saw ten Turkey Vultures, 50 distant Mississippi Kites, a Sharp-shinned Hawk, a few Swainson's Hawks and about 30 Broad-wings.
Gee, now we had a chance to break 80. So I ran to the the back yard and got the evening flight of Neotropic Cormorants.
And then Snowy and Cattle Egrets.
And with a calling Common Nighthawk, I finished the day with 82 species. I missed a lot of common stuff so that's a breakable record.
Jones yard, Progreso Lakes, Hidalgo, Texas, US
Apr 18, 2020 8:20 AM - 8:10 PM
Protocol: Stationary
82 species (+4 other taxa)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (fulgens) 18
Muscovy Duck (Domestic type) 19
Mottled Duck (Gulf Coast) 2
Plain Chachalaca 6
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1
Inca Dove 1
White-tipped Dove 2
White-winged Dove 150
Mourning Dove 10
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Common Nighthawk 1
Common Pauraque 1
Chimney Swift 5
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 8
Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Northern) 2
Common Gallinule (American) 1
Black-necked Stilt (Black-necked) 2
Stilt Sandpiper 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Laughing Gull 3
Franklin's Gull 3
Neotropic Cormorant 23
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 3
Snowy Egret 2
Cattle Egret (Western) 3
Green Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 12
Osprey (carolinensis) 1
Mississippi Kite 50
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Northern) 1
Broad-winged Hawk 30
Swainson's Hawk 5
Ringed Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker (Northern) 4
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Crested Caracara 3
American Kestrel 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Black Phoebe 1
Brown-crested Flycatcher 2
Great Kiskadee 4
Tropical Kingbird 1
Couch's Kingbird 1
Tropical/Couch's Kingbird 2
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 1
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 1
Loggerhead Shrike 1
Black-crested Titmouse 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 20
Purple Martin 2
Barn Swallow (American) 3
Cliff Swallow (pyrrhonota Group) 2
swallow sp. 40
Carolina Wren (Northeast Mexico/South Texas) 1
European Starling 6
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 4
Clay-colored Thrush 1
House Sparrow 5
Lesser Goldfinch 1
Lark Sparrow 2
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 2
Orchard Oriole 3
Hooded Oriole (cucullatus/sennetti) 2
Altamira Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 2
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Bronzed Cowbird (Bronzed) 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 5
Great-tailed Grackle 50
blackbird sp. 100
Golden-winged Warbler 1
Tennessee Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 1
Northern Parula 2
Yellow Warbler (Northern) 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Indigo Bunting 1
Painted Bunting 1
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