Santa Ana NWR, 9/9/07

It was really hot and sweaty at Santa Ana NWR this morning. There were lots of Yellow-breasted Chats and a few other warblers but nothing too exciting. Best thing I saw was this cool venomous Texas Coral Snake.





Here's a Green Kingfisher.



Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 21
Mottled Duck 1
Plain Chachalaca 15
Neotropic Cormorant 1
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 1
Little Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 6
Harris's Hawk 4
Swainson's Hawk 1
Killdeer 5
Black-necked Stilt 16
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 5
Stilt Sandpiper 1
White-winged Dove 30
Mourning Dove 5
Inca Dove 2
White-tipped Dove 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Groove-billed Ani 15
Lesser Nighthawk 1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 2
Ringed Kingfisher 1
Green Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 8
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 5
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
Brown-crested Flycatcher 3
Great Kiskadee 12
Couch's Kingbird 15
Eastern Kingbird 2
White-eyed Vireo 5
Green Jay 5
Cave Swallow 110
Barn Swallow 2
Black-crested Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Clay-colored Robin 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
Long-billed Thrasher 6
European Starling 5
Yellow Warbler 3
Mourning Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 5
Canada Warbler 3
Yellow-breasted Chat 16
Olive Sparrow 8
Painted Bunting 1
Dickcissel 2
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Great-tailed Grackle 5
Baltimore Oriole 8

Frontera Audubon Thicket, 9/1/07

It was a plesant birdy morning this first day of September at Frontera Audubon Thicket in Weslaco and the warblers showed up just like they're supposed to. Nothing outstanding but seven warbler species were nice for a change. Notice the off-white eyestripe, fine streaking and spotted throat on the Northern Waterthrush. Very different from the Louisiana Waterthrush on the previous post.





Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 2
Plain Chachalaca 12
Green Heron 1
White-winged Dove 450
Inca Dove 1
White-tipped Dove 8
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 10
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 7
Green Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 6
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Empidonax sp. 4
Brown-crested Flycatcher 1
Great Kiskadee 4
Couch's Kingbird 3
White-eyed Vireo 3
Black-crested Titmouse 5
Carolina Wren 4
Northern Mockingbird 1
Curve-billed Thrasher 1
Yellow Warbler 8
Black-and-white Warbler 4
Northern Waterthrush 1
Mourning Warbler 1
Wilson's Warbler 4
Canada Warbler 3
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Olive Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 5
Dickcissel 1
Great-tailed Grackle 2
Baltimore Oriole 3
Lesser Goldfinch 1