Our itinerary today included Estero Llano Grande, a Top Secret Burrowing Owl yard, Frontera Audubon thicket, Quinta Mazatlan, Edinburg Wetlands, and 10th & Dove parakeet roost (by the McAllen Walgreens).

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

Gadwall

American Wigeon
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal

Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
* Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
* Plain Chachalaca

Least Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Harris’s Hawk

* Zone-tailed Hawk

American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Least Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
White-tipped Dove
Green Parakeet

* Burrowing Owl

* Common Pauraque

* Buff-bellied Hummingbird

* Green Kingfisher

Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
* Vermilion Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
(Tropical or Couch’s) Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo

Green Jay
* Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Black-crested Titmouse
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet

* Clay-colored Thrush New for North America

Northern Mockingbird
* Curve-billed Thrasher
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
* Bronzed Cowbird
* Altamira Oriole
House Sparrow

77 species for day, 13 new for year, 251 total for year