Tweeters:

Coming home soon but thought I'd pass along that the birding has been
Texas-sized hot down here lately. Although once again here on business, I
just scored a terrific first trip to Big Bend NP over the weekend, and
although there to find Colima Warbler (easy), a Slate-throated Redstart was
at Boot Spring Saturday. Missed it by about a half hour! I've posted twice
recently to their Tweeters, texbirds, anyone coming down should definitely
go in there (it's called Texbirds on the birdingonthe.net listserv).
Although the main migration thrills have now ended at coastal points like
High Island, it was a heckuva spring--on one day about a week ago, there
were reportedly 9 vireo species at the Sea Rim willows near there--the
oddballs including Yellow-green, Black-whiskered and (rare for that part of
Texas) a Bell's. I don't know of any other site that has had both YG and BW
at the same site simultaneously.

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