Hello all, another solid morning of birding in the park. We finished with 32 species for the morning, including our typical residents like Long-billed Thrasher, Olive Sparrow, Couch’s Kingbird, etc. We are also in a major period of fall migration for Orchard Orioles, who have been moving around the park giving their “yeh” calls. We had fun watching this Curve-billed Thrasher take a prolonged dust bath in Ebony Grove. It got down in a soft soil depression (pictured below) and preened, rubbed its feathers in the dirt, and eventually flew off.
This is the small dirt depression which the thrasher bathed in – it looked to be about 3-4 inches deep
This Plain Chachalaca gave us little attention as it went about searching for that perfect Texas Persimmon fruit. Most of the fruits were unripe, but the bird still managed to find a couple ripened ones. You can see the fruit stain on its bill.
As always, full list is below:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 2
Plain Chachalaca 12 3 young in a family group
Snowy Egret 1
Green Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Swainson’s Hawk 1
Laughing Gull 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 14
White-winged Dove 25
Inca Dove 3
Chimney Swift 55 two congregations in separate parts of the park, easily up to 55 – calling loudly.
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 4
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 10
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2
Green Parakeet 4
Great Kiskadee 3
Couch’s Kingbird 1
Tropical/Couch’s Kingbird 1
Black-crested Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 1
Clay-colored Thrush 1
Curve-billed Thrasher 5
Long-billed Thrasher 3
Northern Mockingbird 4
European Starling 2
Olive Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 3
Great-tailed Grackle 2
Bronzed Cowbird 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Orchard Oriole 7
Lesser Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow 40
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