We started the day at Port Bay Club Road, where we spent time with a surprisingly cooperative Seaside Sparrow. Then we wended our way toward the Rio Grande via Ingleside, Port Aransas beach and Birding Center, and Sarita and vicinity. We searched for parrots in Harlingen before dinner. This was our first of four nights at the Fairfield Inn in Weslaco.
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Snow Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Blue-winged Teal
* Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
*Ruddy Duck
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Long-billed Curlew
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
* Black-legged Kittiwake
Bonaparte’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Caspian Tern
* Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
* White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
* Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
* Great Kiskadee
* Tropical Kingbird
* Couch’s Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
* Green Jay
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
* Brewer’s Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
House Sparrow
72 species for day, 11 new for year, 224 for year
