A horrible, cloudy and wet day with a very cold, brisk
wind didn’t encourage me to do much birding so I made today my main travelling
day and l left the Rio Grande Valley and headed back north, back up to near
Houston. I stopped late morning at
Choke Canyon State Park for a bit of walk round despite the unpleasant weather
where there was a nice selection of the usual woodland birds including a Vermillion
Flycatcher, Blue-headed Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Myrtle
Warblers, Green Jays, Bewick’s Wrens, Blue-grey Gnatcatchers, Black-crested
Titmouse and Ladder-backed and Golden-fronted Woodpeckers. There was little on the bits of the
windswept lake that I looked at with 2 Greater Yellowlegs and a handful of
Killdeer of note.
I
got a motel in a town called Eagle Lake and a little walk in a park late
afternoon in the still cold and drizzly conditions produced a big flock of Chipping
Sparrows, a couple of White-throated Sparrows (the first I’ve seen since the
first day) and a Brown Thrasher.
Vermillion Flycatcher
Black-crested Titmouse - really cool birds!
Blue-headed Vireo
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
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