{"id":1004069,"date":"2011-11-11T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T00:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004069"},"modified":"2011-11-21T07:20:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:20:27","slug":"792-794-at-bentsen-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2011\/11\/11\/792-794-at-bentsen-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"#793-#795 at Bentsen State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday I signed up for a relatively leisurely (six hours, one location) trip to the Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, once again along the border. At the first feeders, we spent about 45 minutes watching Plain Chachalcas, Green Jays, Orange-crowned Warblers, Red-winged Blackbirds, a Long-billed Thrasher or two, and several Altamira Orioles, #793, a bird I had missed a few times on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Altamira-Oriole-at-feeder.jpg\" alt=\"Altamira Oriole at feeder\" title=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Altamira-Oriole-at-feeder.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Altamira-Oriole-at-feeder-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We made several more stops inside the park, and at one of them we picked out #794, Northern Beardless Tyrannulet. It&#8217;s a small flycatcher, and did not pose for photos.<\/p>\n<p>Final stop was the hawkwatch platform. We were hoping for Hook-billed Kite, but that was a real longshot, and we didn&#8217;t get it. We did get some shorebirds, a few ducks, and a Loggerhead Shrike. And just before we left a few Cave Swallows, #795,  flew over. <\/p>\n<p>My total count for the site was about 60 avian species (plus a butterfly or two), not counting species a few other folks in the group saw that I missed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>American Avocet \t <\/li>\n<li>White-tailed Hawk \t <\/li>\n<li>American Kestrel \t <\/li>\n<li>American Pipit \t <\/li>\n<li>Black-necked Stilt \t <\/li>\n<li>Black Vulture \t <\/li>\n<li>Cave Swallow \t <\/li>\n<li>Common Ground-Dove \t <\/li>\n<li>Crested Caracara \t <\/li>\n<li>Gadwall \t <\/li>\n<li>Green-winged Teal \t <\/li>\n<li>Great Egret \t <\/li>\n<li>Great Kiskadee \t <\/li>\n<li>Greater Yellowlegs \t <\/li>\n<li>Least Sandpiper \t <\/li>\n<li>Loggerhead Shrike \t <\/li>\n<li>Northern Harrier \t <\/li>\n<li>Red-shouldered Hawk \t <\/li>\n<li>Snowy Egret \t <\/li>\n<li>Spotted Sandpiper \t <\/li>\n<li>White Ibis \t <\/li>\n<li>American Coot \t <\/li>\n<li>Great-tailed Grackle \t<\/li>\n<li>Marsh Wren \t<\/li>\n<li>Snowy Egret \t<\/li>\n<li>Great Kiskadee \t<\/li>\n<li>Clay-colored Thrush \t<\/li>\n<li>Red-winged Blackbird \t<\/li>\n<li>Golden-fronted Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li>Plain Chachalaca \t<\/li>\n<li>Pied-billed Grebe \t<\/li>\n<li>Black Phoebe \t<\/li>\n<li>Orange-crowned Warbler \t<\/li>\n<li>Olive Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li>Northern Mockingbird \t<\/li>\n<li>Northern Cardinal \t<\/li>\n<li>Altamira Oriole \t<\/li>\n<li>Crested Caracara \t<\/li>\n<li>Mourning Dove \t<\/li>\n<li>Inca Dove \t<\/li>\n<li>Ladder-backed Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n<li>Long-billed Thrasher \t<\/li>\n<li>Green Jay \t<\/li>\n<li>White-crowned Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<li>Vermilion Flycatcher \t<\/li>\n<li>Sharp-shinned Hawk \t<\/li>\n<li>Ringed Kingfisher \t<\/li>\n<li>Pyrrhuloxia \t<\/li>\n<li>Osprey \t<\/li>\n<li>Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet \t<\/li>\n<li>Neotropic Cormorant \t<\/li>\n<li>Great Blue Heron \t<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Phoebe \t<\/li>\n<li>Double-crested Cormorant \t<\/li>\n<li>Blue-gray Gnatcatcher \t<\/li>\n<li>Black Vulture \t<\/li>\n<li>Belted Kingfisher \t<\/li>\n<li>Barn Swallow \t<\/li>\n<li>Anhinga \t<\/li>\n<li>White-winged Dove \t<\/li>\n<li>American Coot \t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the three lifers, there were four more state birds for Texas; and \tClay-colored Thrush and Ringed Kingfisher were <acronym title='American Birding Association'>ABA<\/acronym> area birds. Not too bad. After yesterday&#8217;s relatively poor showing of one life bird, I was worrying that I had just about exhausted the possibilities, but apparently there&#8217;s more to be had yet. Tomorrow we&#8217;re visiting another spot along the border, the Southmost Preserve. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday I signed up for a relatively leisurely (six hours, one location) trip to the Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, once again along the border. At the first feeders, we spent about 45 minutes watching Plain Chachalcas, Green Jays, Orange-crowned Warblers, Red-winged Blackbirds, a Long-billed Thrasher or two, and several Altamira Orioles, #793, a bird [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004069"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004086,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004069\/revisions\/1004086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}