It clouded over during the night so the morning was
pretty dark and breezy so a walk round the loop in Falcon State Park was fairly
quiet with the highlight being a covey of 3 SCALED QUAIL flushed from one of
the tracks; otherwise it was similar to yesterday with several Black-throated
Sparrows showing well, singing Bewick’s Wrens and a couple of Vermillion
Flycatchers. I then drove back to
Salineno but it was much quieter here than yesterday (admittedly it was late
morning at this stage!) but I did get much better views of an Audubon’s Oriole
coming down to the feeders.
At
lunchtime I drove north to Zapata where birds around the Library Pool in town
(a nice little oasis in the now very hot afternoon) included two pairs of HOUSE
FINCHES, a Common Yellowthroat, both Myrtle and Audubon’s Warblers,
Orange-crowned Warblers, a female Summer Tanager, a single Scaled Quail, a
Ladder-backed Woodpecker, a full adult male Vermillion Flycatcher, Long-billed
Thrashers, a Pyrrhuloxia, a Blue-headed Vireo and a single female Ring-necked
Duck.
Also
in Zapata there was an impressive gathering of waterbirds in one of the arms of
Falcon Lake including 600+ Neotropic Cormorants, 80+ White Pelicans and a nice
array of Egrets and Ducks with the pick being a pair of Cinnamon Teal with
Shoveler and Blue-winged Teal.
Turkey Vulture
Black-throated Sparrow
Great Kiskadee
Long-billed Thrasher
Audubon's Oriole
Pelicans
Crested Caracara
1st winter Crested Caracara
Northern Mockingbird hanging himself out to dry after a bath
Blue-headed Vireo
Vermillion Flycatcher
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