Filling the Bucket List, Part 3

3/25/19 

For our last day together we were going to try and clean up some target species easier gotten in Cameron County.  We started at Palo Alto Battlefield, where a Curve-billed Thrasher got the list off to a great start!  This is by far the easiest place to get Cassin’s Sparrows, and we weren’t disappointed!  After picking up a Bewick’s Wren in a yucca coming out of the VC parking area, we crawled down to the far parking lot, and we had barely gotten out of the car before we saw the Cassin’s Sparrows singing, skylarking, and otherwise just putting on a great show; one even landed almost close enough to touch!  In with them was a Grasshopper Sparrow that most got a brief look at, and we also added Lincoln’s and Savannah Sparrows to the mix.  A pair of Harris’ Hawks got our juices going at first, and Eastern Meadowlarks were all over.  A Cactus Wren in the big cactus patch gave fleeting views as well, but the star of the show was a lovely hovering White-tailed Kite!  Walking back, a Bobwhite fed contentedly under a bench, and we heard the bright chink of a Sedge Wren.  Back at the visitor’s center a stunning male Hooded Oriole showed off!  

Curve-billed Thrasher

Eastern Meadowlark

The gang enjoys their life Cassin's Sparrow (below)

Another Cassin's Sparrow

Northern Bobwhite

From there we headed south to Old Port Isabel Road, and while the Aplomado Falcon eluded us, we got great looks at the White-tailed Hawk pair, lots of Long-billed Curlews, and show-off Gull-billed Terns near Loma Alta Lake.  There was enough overcast to make out a single Roseate Spoonbill along with several Coots and a couple of White Pelicans (which later flew over), and at the “traditional” falcon spot we had a cooperative pair of Chihuahuan Ravens as well as a Belted Kingfisher!  We padded the list with both ibis species and several ducks at both ponds, including American Wigeon, Ruddy Ducks, and a female Bufflehead!  A Fulvous Whistling Duck had been reported, but we never found that one…  It was nice to get both Tropical and Couch’s Kingbirds talking, and Scissor-tailed Flycatchers were all over!

Long-billed Curlew

Belted Kingfisher

The crew checks out the field...

Chihuahuan Raven

As expected, the road became impassable at the old pipeline intersection, so we turned around, picking up a couple of Horned Larks on the way out.  After a Stripes Stop we headed down Boca Chica Boulevard, and unless I’m losing my mind, the Aplomado nesting platform just past the checkpoint had disappeared!  (I know it can sometimes be blocked by a bush, but we looked for it from every conceivable angle…)  We had a nice Harrier as a consolation prize…  A guy from Ontario stopped when he saw us, and as we chatted he informed us that the road was closed further up due to Space-X rocket testing, so that shot our chances at getting Reddish Egret on the flats L, but we still checked out Palmito Hill for falcons and Cactus Wrens.  We found neither, but the girls enjoyed the history lesson provided by the interpretive signs!  We did log another magnificent White-tailed Hawk, and down in the wooded area (much of which has been cleared by the new landowners, I guess) a Long-billed Thrasher shot across the road, and we had a pair of Roadrunners that made our day!

Gail and Ron read all about the battle...

White-tailed Hawk

Greater Roadrunner

Next stop was the Highway 48 Boat Ramp for another shot at Reddish Egret; dipped on that, but we really padded the list with some great shorebirds and larids including American Oystercatcher (a life bird for Gwen), Avocets, Ruddy Turnstones, Sanderlings, Skimmers, and several tern species along with the Laughing Gulls.  In the heron department we got a pretty Tricolored and some egrets, but not the one we were hoping for…  We checked the wetland on the west side of the highway (accessible from the southbound lanes), but no egret there, either.  By that time we had to decide whether we wanted to go all the way to the South Padre Convention Centre (and deal with the Spring Breakers), so figuring they could get the egret in Florida, they opted to try a last ditch effort for the Aplomado at the SR100 viewing area.

Mess of shorebirds with a close-up of the American Oystercatcher below

So away we went, stopping first across from the “Blue Shack” where we didn’t pick up anything except the funky cactus growing on the power poles, so then headed on to the “official” viewing area.  There we finally hit pay dirt, as one of the Aplomados was sitting pretty on the nesting platform with his back to us, and even though it was heat-wave induced, you could still make out that white eyeline!  A group from Montreal wheeled in after us who were also super excited, as this was their first time to Texas as well!  The raven going after the Harris’ Hawk was almost ho hum!

The gang enjoys a heat-waved view of the Aplomado Falcon (below)!

Keith had offered to take them to see the Elf Owl that night, so we headed on home, where we all focused on putting air into Heppy’s rear tire before kissing goodbye!  We hit the 80 mark once again with 89 species, and as Ron wrote in their note to me afterwards, they hoped for 20 lifers and got 50!  What a blast!

Bird list:

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mottled Duck
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Northern Bobwhite
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
American Oystercatcher
Killdeer
Long-billed Curlew
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Harris's Hawk
White-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Aplomado Falcon
Great Kiskadee
Tropical Kingbird
Couch's Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Chihuahuan Raven
Horned Lark
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Verdin
House Wren
Sedge Wren
Bewick's Wren
Cactus Wren
Curve-billed Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cassin's Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Olive Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Hooded Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Cardinal

Filling the Bucket List, Part 2

3/23/19 

I warned the gang that after yesterday’s blitz the quantity would definitely go down (as it often does in Starr County), but hopefully not the quality!  Little did I know…  Heading west we noticed that the Scissor-tailed Flycatchers were back with a vengeance, and I had forgotten that some birds were lifers for Gail but not the other two, so we careened off the highway past Roma for a good look at a Loggerhead Shrike! J

Gail's life Loggerhead Shrike!

I had noticed that Red-billed Pigeons had been reported at Salineño City Park, so since I had never been there before (and it was right on the way to the famous preserve), we decided to check it out.  Right from the fire station parking area we logged an Ash-throated Flycatcher and a Bewick’s Wren singing his little heart out!  I heard the wheep of a Hooded Oriole, and shortly he darted over our heads and landed at the top of a tree for great scope views!  Gail spotted a Pyrrhuloxia (a most-wanted bird for Ron), but it got away before the others saw it, so we made a circle of the park to try and refind it.  In the meantime we logged a displaying Vermilion Flycatcher, Lark Sparrows, and oodles of House Finches!  On the way back we finally spotted the Pyrr sitting up and got the scope on him, and everyone was duly awed by that combination of silver and rose!

Bewick's Wren

Gail, Ron, and Gwen at Salineno City Park

Vermilion Flycatcher

Very distant Pyrrhuloxia giving us the looking-over...

No pigeons (except the Rock kind), so we headed on down to the boat ramp where some guys were fishing.  While Ron greeted them I checked the river, but while checking I actually heard a seedeater singing!!  So down the trail we went post haste; I was so afraid I was gonna spook him before I spotted him, so I recruited everyone’s eyes, but suddenly there he was at the top of a tree, not paying a bit of attention to us as we got great scope views!  Unfortunately he was a brown youngster (as opposed to the nappy black-and-white adult male), but he put on quite the concert!

Young male Morelet's Seedeater

We thought everything would be anticlimactic after that, but once down to the cul-de-sac, we spotted a Gray Hawk in a dead tree across the way, and a singing Long-billed Thrasher across the culvert!  Somewhere in here a male Bullock’s Oriole sat up for scope views, which was a FOY for me (and apparently an early arrival as it wasn’t on the eBird list).  No pigeons, but I suggested we give it 15 minutes for stuff to show up.  Swainson’s Hawks were circling along with the TVs, and we actually had a spoonbill flying way overhead!  A large group of Anhingas came at us, and while Cave Swallow was another wanted bird, we only had Rough-winged and Barns show up.  Not even a kingfisher of either flavor deigned to show themselves, but what did come tearing in again was the seedeater!  He shot right into that little bush at the foot of the culvert before darting back to another tree, singing away!  While we were enjoying him someone hissed, “Yellow!” and a brilliant male Lesser Goldfinch sat briefly over the rocks!  

Ron, Gail, and Gwen enjoying the Gray Hawk

Gail and Ron look longingly for the Audubon's Oriole

We were hearing both Altamira and Audubon’s Orioles calling and singing across the way, and thankfully I spotted the Audubon’s sitting up on a tree!  But Ron didn’t get to see it before it bolted, so we decided to give it another 15 minutes before heading back.  The Audubon’s finally came back and not only sat up, but came over to the US side (not that anyone cared, but we were joking about our “Mexican” lists J)!  Some ducks quacked and flew over the island, showing nice white borders to the speculums, nailing them as the newly-split Mexican!  But what was even better was the big black duck with big white wing patches and dark gray mottling on the face that went powering upriver – a (real) Muscovy Duck!  Everyone was ecstatic with that look!

We headed back happy campers (even without the pigeons), enjoying a lady Ladder-backed Woodpecker in the dead tree in the circle.  On the way the Chachalacas were starting to chorus; we counted at least three different pairs!  Back at the boat ramp the resident Osprey showed off, and we logged some cormorants, but that was the extent of the show, so we headed on up to the Dump Road.

A friendly birder took this portrait of the four of us at the boat ramp!

As we crawled along, a male Black-chinned Hummingbird perched right outside the car, and Black-throated Sparrows were singing all over; we finally got looks at one sitting up.  Cassin’s Sparrows were singing in the distance, and Gwen thought she may have seen one, but it bolted before anyone else saw it… L  The Cactus Wren was the other songster that got away, as we didn’t hear a one at Falcon.  Another Pyrrhuloxia perched close by as well, and turned out to be fairly numerous along the road.  But the star of the road was the Caracara that perched on a power pole right in front of us and let us study his every feather!  Near the grassy field I heard a rising wheeze coming from the brush next to us – it was a lingering Hermit Thrush!

Black-throated Sparrow

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

After a quick swing through Falcon County Park to see if the Coma Trees had any pigeons feeding in them yet (nada), we headed into the state park, stopping for a Bobwhite that had run across the road and then perched up on a bush!  Once we got our pass Gwen pulled over past the entrance kiosk to let a guy pulling a boat past, and he nearly ran down a Roadrunner trying to get across!  As we crawled along we heard more Black-throated Sparrows, Bewick’s Wrens, Verdins, and White-eyed Vireos, but also the distinctive deet-deet-deet cht-cht-cht song of a Black-tailed Gnatcatcher!  Unfortunately he didn’t wanna come out, and as we continued on I couldn’t believe my ears:  a Bell’s Vireo was singing!!  (He sings a belligerent Don’t-chyou-ev-ver-tellmewhattoDO!)  Unfortunately he didn’t wanna play ball, either, not even for the recorder! L

We stopped at the primitive campground to try and spot the Cassin’s Sparrows that were singing; sadly I think I was the only one to catch the guy skylarking, and he never did sit up where you could see him.  It was definitely getting quiet by then, and about the only additional songbird we picked up was a (finally) cooperative White-eyed Vireo that gave everyone great looks!  At the end of the picnic area some Savannah Sparrows were being stubborn, and we logged a gob of egrets and cormorants that were way out there, in addition to a couple of Great Blue Herons.  We picked up a pair of Inca Doves near the Rec Center, and a Common Ground Dove gave a very brief glimpse on the way to the boat ramp.

Trying to pull out a Cassin's Sparrow...

My charges were curious about Roma Bluffs, so since we had time we decided to swing by.  We gave it 15 minutes but didn’t add anything new (a blackbird flipping its tail like a phoebe had us going for a minute), and the swallows nesting under the bridge were too distant for me to discern whether they were Cliffs or Caves.  But the real shocker was yet another seedeater singing and calling in the cane!

The Rio Grande from Roma Bluffs

After a gas and ice cream stop in Rio Grande City J we headed towards home, but since we still had a little time, I suggested stopping on that bridge along Old Military Highway to see if the Cave Swallows were nesting there yet.  But a quick stop at Inspiration Pond added Mottled Duck and Pied-billed Grebe to the day list!  The swallows weren’t back yet (we didn’t even pick up the Black Phoebe), so we continued on, showing them the turnoff to Anzalduas for their solo exploration the next day.  Since we were going right through Hidalgo, we stopped for the Monk Parakeets, which was a nice ending to the day!

Monk Parakeets in the nest

And for a primarily Starr County day, we ended up with an astounding 81 species!  Bird list:

Muscovy Duck

Blue-winged Teal
Mexican Duck
Mottled Duck
Plain Chachalaca
Northern Bobwhite
Pied-billed Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Black-chinned Hummingbird
American Coot
Killdeer
Anhinga
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Gray Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Monk Parakeet
Vermilion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Couch's Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Bell's Vireo
Green Jay
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-crested Titmouse
Verdin
House Wren
Bewick's Wren
Cactus Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Curve-billed Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Cassin's Sparrow
Olive Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Eastern Meadowlark
Hooded Oriole
Bullock’s Oriole
Altamira Oriole
Audubon's Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia
Morelet's Seedeater
House Sparrow

Filling the Bucket List, Part 1

3/22/19

Gwen, Gail, and their dad Ron came in from all over the continent (literally – Gwen lives in Canada) to meet and bird in south Texas for the first time (they explained that this was a "bucket list" trip for their dad)!  They greeted me with the news that they got their life Black-bellied Whistling Ducks the night before sitting on our mailbox, and a couple of common urban specialties at Bill Schupp Park!  But by the time the day was over, the girls were right:  octogenarian Ron left us in the dust and wore us all out! J

We deviated from the original itinerary a little as some of our current rarities were of interest (as well as the local specialty targets), so we started at Quinta Mazatlan in hopes of bagging the continuing Crimson-collared Grosbeak.  A Ladder-backed Woodpecker sat up on a dead tree in the grass lot, an Orange-crowned Warbler led us all around the parking lot, and a Curve-billed Thrasher gave us a somewhat obscured view.  Probably the most unusual sighting was a pair of Long-billed Curlews flying overhead! 

Once in the park some murmuring Chachalacas got us on the side trail in hopes of seeing them on the ground, but they actually eluded us.  The trail was really pretty devoid of birds until we got close to the Ebony Trail, when I suddenly heard the grosbeak doing its high wheeoo! call!  She remained hidden as we followed the sound, and sure shootin’, she was headed straight for the amphitheater, where a handful of other guys were already waiting.  We took our seats, enjoying a few Chachalacas that were already looking for food and mooning each other, along with the occasional Kiskadee and Green Jay.  Shortly John Brush came in with the goods, reminding us that the grosbeak often came into the Potato Tree, the leaves and fruit of which is a favorite food.  It wasn’t long after that that she suddenly appeared, on the same feeder that Ken and I saw her on earlier in the year!  That was hard to beat, but on the way to the visitor center to pay our entrance fee we got sidetracked by a Clay-colored Thrush where they were setting up for some event, plus a pair of Tropical Kingbirds that tittered and went flying over the trees!

Park naturalist John Brush fills the feeders (note the Chachalacas gathering around him)!

Chachalacas chowing down

Lady Crimson-collared Grosbeak with Green Jay friend

The Tropical Parula at Santa Ana was of interest, so we tootled over there next.  The outside feeders were a hit with their first White-tipped Dove, in addition to more Green Jays, Kiskadees, and of course Redwings.  Up on the levee a raptor was coming at us that turned into a lovely Broad-winged Hawk!  Heading towards Chachalaca Trail we heard a Verdin fairly close, so we poked a little down the Tower Trail to get a backlit view of that bird (Gwen – I think – said she saw the “yellow beard” through the sun, and someone mentioned that it reminded them of Tweety Bird with such a tiny bill)!

Gail, Gwen, and Ron enjoy a Couch's Kingbird (below) from the levee

Getting back onto Chachalaca some got a fleeting look at an Olive Sparrow, and I heard the Beardless Tyrannulet and Long-billed Thrasher in the distance, but we could never get on either of them.  The Altamira Oriole was whistling happily, so we were headed in that direction when I heard the buzzy zhreeeeeeee-tsup! of a parula (and since both Northern and Tropical sound the same around here, and both had been reported, I had no idea which it was)!  So we stalked that until it suddenly quit singing, so since we couldn’t find it, we checked out the waterfowl on Willow Lake for a bit, logging their life Least Grebes (we also heard Pied-billed), plus the normal ducks, including a nice pair of Cinnamon Teal that Ron spotted.  Before long I heard the parula start up again, so we headed back to the connector trail and felt like we were right on top of the thing when another birding party approached from the other direction; I got their attention and got them looking as well, when the girls finally spotted it, and when I finally got on it, it was definitely the Tropical!  Bingo!  Some other birders that had come up behind us also got to see it, so that was a great blessing!

On the Chachalaca Trail

Continuing on, the Altamira suddenly shot through near the big blind, and then sat right out in the open for us!  A Lesser Goldfinch wasn’t quite as cooperative…  Gail (I think) spotted the Marsh Wren that had been calling as it dove into the reeds, and we got good looks at the Common Gallinules, but the Soras remained hidden.  Another raptor way up there turned into a pretty Swainson’s Hawk, and a Couch’s Kingbird gave us a nice scope view as well.  On the way back I showed them the tree snails that the Hook-billed Kites like to eat, including a pretty striped one!  Going back over the levee what I was hoping was a Swallow-tailed Kite morphed into a White Pelican, and back at the visitor center we watched the feeders that are just outside the building, and enjoyed a couple of Buff-bellied Hummers fight over the hummer feeder!

Altamira Oriole

Tree Snail

From there it was time to hit Estero Llano Grande State Park (the place we were scheduled to visit first J), and after checking in, the volunteer lady informed me that the Alligator Lake Pauraque was moving her babies around and was hard to spot, but that the one in the Tropical Zone had been pretty reliable, so after padding the list with more ducks and shorebirds from the deck, we headed back there.  We added a gnatcatcher and kinglet along the main road, but before long we caught up with Huck and Tom’s bird walk where they were focused on something, and when he saw us Huck beckoned us over!  I had no idea what they had until we got close enough to hear him say “ani”, and sure enough, a cute Groove-billed Ani was in the bush right at eye level!  And it wasn’t long before he came shooting over and sat at our feet!!  One poor lady lost her balance squatting to get a picture and slowly rolled over, but that turned out to be a better vantage point as she (and the bird) stayed put for pictures! J

Ron and an unknown birder (also below) shoot a friendly Groove-billed Ani (circled in red) with their iPhones!

Ani portraits...

Close-up of the head

I mentioned the Pauraque and Tom said he could take us right to him, so Huck gathered his flock and went the other way while Tom took us down to where “Bernie” was hanging out, and had he not pointed him out I’m not sure I would have found him, even with the lady’s precise directions!  (He was facing us, so that always makes it a little trickier…)  So we enjoyed him for a bit before hitting the Indigo Blind, as the Olive Sparrows had been coming in there and at the open platform feeder (which we would hit next).  We had a delightful time at the blind, enjoying close Golden-fronted Woodpeckers, Black-crested Titmice, more Green Jays and White-tipped Doves, and a cooperative Lincoln’s Sparrow!  After about 15 minutes we hit the open feeders, where a female Black-chinned Hummingbird came in to the hummer feeder, and we enjoyed a better look at the Curve-billed Thrasher that was making a nest in the cactus!  But before long, there was the Olive Sparrow, right out in the open (along with two more Lincoln’s), so everyone finally got a great look!

Tom points out "Bernie the Pauraque" (below) to the gang

Waiting patiently in the Indigo Blind (photo taken by one of the girls...)

Female Golden-fronted Woodpecker

Green Jay

Olive Sparrow at the open feeders

After consulting with Huck again about Screech Owls (nada L), we headed into the main park for a crack at Green Kingfisher at Grebe Marsh.  After being the Good Samaritan (a young mom was taking pictures of her dolled-up little girl, and Ron offered to take a picture of both of them together J) we headed out with a quick look at Dowitcher Pond.  Grebe Marsh had tons of Red-eared Sliders, but no kingfisher, so we went on to Alligator Lake to try there.  After enjoying one adult and several immature Yellow-crowned Night Herons, a Green Kingfisher finally shot by and then circled around, landing on a stalk where we could get scope views!  High fives all around!  A young Harrier circled around at the kingfisher spot, and while dragging ourselves back to the deck (where most of us indulged in an ice cream J) a nice Harris’ Hawk sailed overhead!

From there I thought Edinburg Wetlands might be a good place to try for the Ringed Kingfisher, so we headed up there next.  We logged a Caracara on the way in, and once in the park we found a little feeding flock that had a couple of Wilson’s Warblers in it.  The north pond had their first Neotropic Cormorants (along with a few Anhingas) and another noisy Green Kingfisher (and Heron for good measure), plus a couple of high-diving Forster’s Terns, but alas, no Ringed Kingfisher.  The place was alive with Cardinals, however, and Gwen commented on how bright even the female’s bill was (a real “Maybelline Moment” she said J)!  The only thing we spotted at their little blind was a House Wren; we didn’t even kick up a Long-billed Thrasher in there, but that gave us something to look for the next day! J

We ended up with 81 species for the day close to 30 life birds for my charges!  Bird list:

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Mottled Duck
Green-winged Teal
Plain Chachalaca
Least Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Inca Dove
White-tipped Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Groove-billed Ani
Common Pauraque
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
Killdeer
Long-billed Curlew
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Forster's Tern
Anhinga
Neotropic Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Harris's Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Green Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Great Kiskadee
Tropical Kingbird
Couch's Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Green Jay
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Black-crested Titmouse
Verdin
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Clay-colored Thrush
Curve-billed Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Lesser Goldfinch
Olive Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Altamira Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Tropical Parula
Wilson's Warbler
Crimson-collared Grosbeak
Northern Cardinal
House Sparrow