First Louisiana Waterthrush at Progreso Lakes, 3/20/22

It's been a long time since I've added any new birds to our Progreso Lakes yard list.  But spring is here so that opens up a whole new realm of possible visitors.  I was sitting down by the water in our backyard this morning hoping for some migrants or at least something new for the month, when a warbler sized bird flew up from below the bank and landed in the nearby dead ash.  Immediately it started bobbing its tail and let out a chip.  I knew I had a waterthrush and considering the time of year my guess was it was a Louisiana Waterthrush.  It just perched and bobbed away so I got all the photos I wanted.  The relatively large bill, white unstreaked throat, long white superciliary stripe and pinkish buff sides all made the ID simple.  This Louisiana Waterthrush is the 243rd species for our yard.

The wind picked up afterwards and nothing else interesting showed up though I did get a good morning list of fifty species.

Jones yard, Progreso Lakes, Hidalgo, Texas, US

Mar 20, 2022 7:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.037 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    All birds seen from our one acre yard.

50 species (+3 other taxa)

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (fulgens)  1800

Muscovy Duck (Domestic type)  2

Mottled Duck (Gulf Coast)  2

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  20

Eurasian Collared-Dove  1

Inca Dove  1

White-tipped Dove  1

White-winged Dove  3

Mourning Dove  4

Black-chinned Hummingbird  2

Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird  1

Buff-bellied Hummingbird (Northern)  1

Caspian Tern  1

Anhinga  3

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Neotropic Cormorant  30

Great Egret (American)  1

Snowy Egret  1

Black-crowned Night-Heron  6

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron  1

Turkey Vulture  40

Osprey (carolinensis)  1

Cooper's Hawk  1

Harris's Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Eastern Screech-Owl (McCall's)  1

Golden-fronted Woodpecker (Northern)  2

Ladder-backed Woodpecker  1

Black Phoebe  2

Great Kiskadee  2

Couch's Kingbird  1

Black-crested Titmouse  1

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2

Purple Martin  2

Tree Swallow  10

Barn Swallow (American)  3

swallow sp.  10

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (caerulea)  1

European Starling  8

Northern Mockingbird  3

House Sparrow  8

Lesser Goldfinch  2

Lincoln's Sparrow  2

Hooded Oriole (cucullatus/sennetti)  1

Altamira Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  100

Bronzed Cowbird (Bronzed)  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  8

Great-tailed Grackle (Great-tailed)  6

Louisiana Waterthrush  1

Orange-crowned Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

Northern Cardinal (Common)  3