Allen's Hummingbird at Bentsen State Park, 9/15/07

Thanks to Mary Gustafson for refinding and reporting the adult male Allen's Hummingbird at Bentsen State Park's World Birding Center. My wife Honey and I spent about an hour this evening watching the feeder on the north side of the offices. Honey found the bird perched in the small ash near the men's restroom near the feeder. I told her it was because she was wearing her lucky ...er...uhm...never mind. Here's some not too great pics.





Mary is trying to catch the bird to see if it is indeed an Allen's Hummingbird as a small percentage of adult male Rufous Hummingbirds show a green back. She will have to examine the shape of the next to middle rectrices. If she can't prove it's really an Allen's I just may count it anyway. I need it for a state and county bird!

Frontera Audubon Thicket, 9/15/07

This morning I found the first ever Northern Beardless Tyrannulet for Frontera Audubon Thicket. In fact it was the first I have ever seen in Weslaco. It was back in the NE corner by the new gate and the ditch. Too bad I didn't take my camera. Not too much else going on except for FOS Blue-headed and Warbling Vireos.

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 9
Plain Chachalaca 15
Green Heron 1
Killdeer 1
Rock Pigeon 2
White-winged Dove 40
Inca Dove 3
White-tipped Dove 6
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 10
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 10
Green Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 8
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Great Kiskadee 5
Couch's Kingbird 6
White-eyed Vireo 5
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 1
Green Jay 1
Barn Swallow 8
Black-crested Titmouse 4
Carolina Wren 5
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Northern Mockingbird 3
Long-billed Thrasher 2
Yellow Warbler 6
Wilson's Warbler 3
Canada Warbler 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 6
Olive Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Painted Bunting 1
Great-tailed Grackle 1
Baltimore Oriole 1
Lesser Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 3