Nothing like being back in South Texas to fill out a bird list. Last month, one state, 85 birds. The month before, 6 states, 107 birds. This month, 3 states (but only 1 day for Colorado and Oklahoma), and 158 birds. The October bird list:
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck |
| Snow Goose |
| Canada Goose |
| Gadwall |
| Mallard |
| Mottled Duck |
| Blue-winged Teal |
| Northern Shoveler |
| Northern Pintail |
| Green-winged Teal |
| Redhead |
| Ruddy Duck |
| Ring-necked Pheasant |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
| American White Pelican |
| Brown Pelican |
| Neotropic Cormorant |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Anhinga |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Snowy Egret |
| Little Blue Heron |
| Tricolored Heron |
| Reddish Egret |
| Cattle Egret |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| White Ibis |
| White-faced Ibis |
| Roseate Spoonbill |
| Wood Stork |
| Black Vulture |
| Turkey Vulture |
| Osprey |
| Bald Eagle |
| Northern Harrier |
| Cooper’s Hawk |
| Red-shouldered Hawk |
| Swainson’s Hawk |
| White-tailed Hawk |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| Golden Eagle |
| Crested Caracara |
| American Kestrel |
| Merlin |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Clapper Rail |
| Sora |
| Common Moorhen |
| American Coot |
| Sandhill Crane |
| Whooping Crane |
| Black-bellied Plover |
| Snowy Plover |
| Semipalmated Plover |
| Piping Plover |
| Killdeer |
| American Oystercatcher |
| Black-necked Stilt |
| American Avocet |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Willet |
| Lesser Yellowlegs |
| Long-billed Curlew |
| Marbled Godwit |
| Ruddy Turnstone |
| Red Knot |
| Sanderling |
| Least Sandpiper |
| Dunlin |
| Stilt Sandpiper |
| Long-billed Dowitcher |
| Wilson’s Snipe |
| Laughing Gull |
| Franklin’s Gull |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Herring Gull |
| Gull-billed Tern |
| Caspian Tern |
| Black Tern |
| Common Tern |
| Forster’s Tern |
| Royal Tern |
| Sandwich Tern |
| Black Skimmer |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove |
| White-winged Dove |
| Mourning Dove |
| Inca Dove |
| Common Ground-Dove |
| Great Horned Owl |
| Burrowing Owl |
| Common Nighthawk |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| Golden-fronted Woodpecker |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
| Northern Flicker |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee |
| Eastern Phoebe |
| Say’s Phoebe |
| Vermilion Flycatcher |
| Great Kiskadee |
| Couch’s Kingbird |
| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher |
| Loggerhead Shrike |
| White-eyed Vireo |
| Blue Jay |
| American Crow |
| Common Raven |
| Horned Lark |
| Tree Swallow |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow |
| Cave Swallow |
| Barn Swallow |
| Brown Creeper |
| Cactus Wren |
| Carolina Wren |
| House Wren |
| Marsh Wren |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Swainson’s Thrush |
| American Robin |
| Gray Catbird |
| Northern Mockingbird |
| European Starling |
| Sprague’s Pipit |
| Orange-crowned Warbler |
| Nashville Warbler |
| Northern Parula |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
| Black-throated Green Warbler |
| Yellow-throated Warbler |
| Pine Warbler |
| Palm Warbler |
| Black-and-white Warbler |
| American Redstart |
| Common Yellowthroat |
| Wilson’s Warbler |
| Summer Tanager |
| Savannah Sparrow |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| Northern Cardinal |
| Indigo Bunting |
| Dickcissel |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Eastern Meadowlark |
| Western Meadowlark |
| Brewer’s Blackbird |
| Common Grackle |
| Boat-tailed Grackle |
| Great-tailed Grackle |
| Bronzed Cowbird |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Orchard Oriole |
| House Sparrow |