Progreso Lakes, 11/4/20

After the election ugliness from last night, I was happy to spend some time in our Progreso Lakes yard looking at birds.  I saw a few warblers yesterday and was hoping to add some more to the November yard list.  I picked out the usual Myrtle and Orange-crowns.  And then scored this little cutie, our second ever Black-throated Gray Warbler.  There's been a bunch of them in the Valley this year.

Then I got a few poor shots of a Black-throated Green Warbler.  Looking more closely at the photos I discovered there were actually two of them.

This late Tennessee Warbler was a nice surprise.  The fall females confuse a lot of inexperienced birders.

There were a couple of Nashvilles and a Common Yellowthroat.  But I knew there were at least two more were lurking somewhere.  Finally my Wilson's and Yellow-throated Warblers flew in for a bath.

That made nine species of warblers on the day.  Pretty good for November!  One last scope of the resaca turned up one more good bird.  This distant female Wood Duck was only our second and year bird #196 for the yard.

Jones yard, Progreso Lakes, Hidalgo, Texas, US

Nov 4, 2020 6:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Protocol: Stationary

51 species (+1 other taxa)

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (fulgens)  500

Muscovy Duck (Domestic type)  3

Wood Duck  1    female, brown duck with grayish bushy head with tear dropped eye ring, small bill, white throat.

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  20

Eurasian Collared-Dove  3

Inca Dove  12

Mourning Dove  22

Black-chinned Hummingbird  1

Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Northern)  1

Common Gallinule (American)  1

Killdeer  1

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Neotropic Cormorant  1

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Snowy Egret  1

Green Heron  2

Black-crowned Night-Heron  4

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  4

Turkey Vulture  250

Ringed Kingfisher  1

Golden-fronted Woodpecker (Northern)  2

Ladder-backed Woodpecker  1

American Kestrel  1

Peregrine Falcon  1

Black Phoebe  1

Eastern Phoebe  1

Great Kiskadee  2

White-eyed Vireo  1

Loggerhead Shrike  1

Green Jay (Green)  1

Black-crested Titmouse  1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  2

House Wren (Northern)  1

Carolina Wren (Northeast Mexico/South Texas)  1

European Starling  80

Northern Mockingbird  3

Clay-colored Thrush  1

House Sparrow  8

Lincoln's Sparrow  1

Altamira Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  30

Bronzed Cowbird (Bronzed)  80

Great-tailed Grackle  6

Tennessee Warbler  1

Orange-crowned Warbler  6

Nashville Warbler  2

Common Yellowthroat  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

Yellow-throated Warbler  1

Black-throated Gray Warbler  1

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Wilson's Warbler  1