February 22: Heading to Zapata

We spent the morning at Quinta Mazatlan, Hidalgo, and Anzalduas County Park, then took an afternoon drive to Zapata via Peñitas, Roma, Salineño, and the library pond. This was the first of 2 nights at Holiday Inn Express, Zapata.

Mallard
Mottled Duck
Bufflehead
Plain Chachalaca
* Northern Bobwhite
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Harris’s Hawk
* Gray Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Merlin
* Prairie Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Caspian Tern
Forster’s Tern
Rock Pigeon
Red-billed Pigeon
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
White-tipped Dove
Monk Parakeet
Monk Parakeet
Green Parakeet
Eastern Screech-Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
* Black-chinned Hummingbird
* Ringed Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
* Black Phoebe
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Great Kiskadee
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue-headed Vireo
Green Jay
Tree Swallow
* Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Black-crested Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Clay-colored Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Long-billed Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
* Black-and-white Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
* Northern Parula
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
* Black-throated Gray Warbler
Olive Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow
* Western Tanager
* Summer Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Altamira Oriole
* Audubon’s Oriole
Audubon's Oriole (well, parts of him, anyway)
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

70 species for day, 13 new for year, 270 for year)

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