Author: Steve

Look out your window. Take a walk. Record the birds you see. Send it in.
They make it really easy.http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/The count goes for 4 days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.Our list for Friday:Locality: Edinburg, Hidalgo County, TX
Observation Date: FEB 12, 2010
Start Time: 5:00 PM
Total Birding Time: 1 hour
Habitat(s):
scrub
freshwater
Number of Species: 38
All Reported: yes
Checklist:
Gadwall – 12
Blue-winged Teal – 8
Cinnamon Teal – 3
Northern Shoveler – 50
Green-winged Teal – 5
Lesser Scaup – 5
Ruddy Duck – 45
Least Grebe – 6
Neotropic Cormorant – 15
Double-crested Cormorant – 5
Anhinga – 1
Great Blue Heron – 3
Great Egret – 5
Snowy Egret – 10
Little Blue Heron – 2
Cattle Egret – 3
Black-crowned Night-Heron – 3
Turkey Vulture – 4
Red-tailed Hawk – 1
American Kestrel – 3
Merlin – 1
American Coot – 9
Black-necked Stilt – 30
Least Sandpiper – 60
Stilt Sandpiper – 1
Long-billed Dowitcher – 35
Mourning Dove – 1
Greater Roadrunner – 1
Great Kiskadee – 3
Purple Martin – 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
Northern Mockingbird – 4
Long-billed Thrasher – 1
Orange-crowned Warbler – 9
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 15
Red-winged Blackbird – 90
Great-tailed Grackle – 40
House Sparrow – 15

Then we would have seen this giant dead whale on the beach.

They had to drag it up to the dunes to bury it.

Greater Roadrunner. Plain Chachalaca. Orange-Crowned Warbler.