We spent the day visiting Harlingen City Lake, FM 106, Laguna Atascosa NWR, Progreso Lakes, and Santa Ana NWR

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Kim Eckert estimated 5,000, and it sure looked like that many to me, at Progresso Lakes.)

(non-countable Muscovy Ducks)
Gadwall

American Wigeon
Mallard
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Plain Chachalaca

Least Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret

White Ibis
* White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Harris’s Hawk

White-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk

Crested Caracara

American Kestrel
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Long-billed Curlew
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Forster’s Tern
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
White-tipped Dove

* Monk Parakeet
Green Parakeet
Eastern Screech-Owl

Belted Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
* Northern Beardless Tyrannulet

Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee

Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Green Jay


Black-crested Titmouse
* Verdin
House Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Clay-colored Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
* Long-billed Thrasher

Eurasian Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
* Yellow-headed Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Altamira Oriole
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

99 species for day, 6 new for year, 257 species for year