Subject: Texas birds
Date: Jul 28 16:57:18 2004
From: Scott Atkinson - scottratkinson at hotmail.com


Tweeters:

Like Larry I am willing to share on Texas if anyone is interested. I too
have been travelling alot down in Texas (three trips since first of year,
just got back from latest July 17), Florida (twice since May), and coastal
spots in between. Now that being said, it's mostly business, but you
guessed it, I got weekends out of the deal and one of the Florida trips was
a family vacation that had more birding involved.

If you want that first-ever-for-N. America Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush
down at Allen's place in Pharr you'd better hurry judging from today's
TexBirds. Blue Mockingbird is still possible there, too, but tough. I
missed the latter but was thrilled at finding Sabal's Gray-crowned
Yellowthroat and 3 Yellow-green Vireos July 10, and--unexpected--just
submitted details to the powers-that-be for Green Violet-ear as well. I was
looking in toward the Short-tailed Hawk spot (that's right, Sabal even had
that this spring, saw it April 2) when this large hummer came by. The Gr.
Flamingo is still easy I gather, and during my May trip located all the El
Rio goodies that Larry mentioned, plus Muscovies. On top of all that, there
have been a couple recent reports of Jabirus near Houston, so it seem like
the Texas birding, even in mid-summer, is red-hot.

Scott Atkinson
Lake Stevens
mail to: scottratkinson at hotmail.com

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