Today we tied a weather record for Weslaco, Texas. It was the 62nd day of 2023 with temperatures reaching 100F or above. So this summer when I get up in the morning it's hard to get motivated to go anywhere or do any yard work. I usually just start birding from the porch, have some breakfast and then set the scope up in the back yard. More of the same today. But what can I say. It's all right.
As lunch time approached today I had compiled a long list of birds for the morning and was feeling like I was doing pretty good when I spied a small flock of White Ibises in the distance. As I raised the camera and fired a couple of documentary shots I noticed a dark shape flash across my view. What was that? I picked up the binocs and soon found a migrating Swallow-tailed Kite doing lazy loops. I got a couple of shots and was happy to finally get one for this year's yard list. It is the eighth I've seen in our seven years at Progreso Lakes. Later in the evening as I edited photos I discovered I had actually gotten images of the kite as it passed behind the ibis flock. Pretty cool!
The morning started with hummingbirds. I had a Black-chinned, three Buff-bellieds and ten migrant Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.
A couple of Painted Buntings failed to cooperate.
But our first Cooper's Hawk of the fall posed for photos.
Back by the water a migrat Black Tern passed by. It's been a good fall for them.
A couple of times each year I will have a Long-billed Curlew fly over.
A Yellow Warbler posed overhead. Several have been hanging around this week.
A young Tricolored Heron daily fishes just a few feet from our shoreline.
Here's today's list.
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