We started out the morning at Las Palmas, hit the gnatcatcher side road, and went back to Las Palmas Trail in Laredo for a splendid experience with White-collared Seedeaters.

Gadwall
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Crested Caracara
Solitary Sandpiper
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Ringed Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
* Ash-throated Flycatcher

Great Kiskadee
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Chihuahuan Raven
* Cliff Swallow
* Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Clay-colored Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Eurasian Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
White-collared Seedeater

Great-tailed Grackle
House Sparrow

27 species, 3 new for year, 282 for year

Salineño, Falcon County Park, Chapeño, Falcon State Park, and San Ygnacio

Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Plain Chachalaca
Northern Bobwhite
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Harris’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Gray Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Spotted Sandpiper
Rock Pigeon
* Red-billed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove

White-tipped Dove
* Greater Roadrunner


Belted Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker

Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher

Great Kiskadee
Couch’s Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Green Jay
* Chihuahuan Raven
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Black-crested Titmouse
Verdin
Bewick’s Wren
* Cactus Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Clay-colored Thrush

Northern Mockingbird
Long-billed Thrasher

Curve-billed Thrasher
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
* White-collared Seedeater
Olive Sparrow
* Cassin’s Sparrow

* Black-throated Warbler
* Lincoln’s Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
* Pyrrhuloxia


Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Altamira Oriole

Audubon’s Oriole
House Sparrow

74 species, 9 new for year, 279 total for year)