/blogs/antshrike/ Bird diary of South Texas and Beyond en-us 2008-01-08T15:55:13+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2008/01/starting_the_new_year_lists.html See what going on in my new blog. http://antshrike.blogspot.com/... antshrike 2008-01-08T15:55:13+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2007/04/llano_grande_flood_channel.html Saw this cool American Bittern at the Llano Grande flood channel south of Estera Llano Grande State Park. Check out my new blog for a complete list. http://antshrike.blogspot.com... antshrike 2007-04-13T01:18:36+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2007/04/good_day_in_hidalgo_county.html Check out this Red-necked Phalarope I saw at Sal del Rey this morning. Then there was this guy on the way home. Check out my new bog for details. http://antshrike.blogspot.com/... antshrike 2007-04-06T04:18:48+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2007/03/frontera_audubon_thicket_31707.html With the recent troubles on Surfbirds (which I still love!) I've started a new birding blog. http://antshrike.blogspot.com/ Check it out.... antshrike 2007-03-18T03:30:06+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2007/03/rufousbacked_robin_at_santa_an.html Here's a poor pic of the Rufous Backed Robin at Santa Ana NWR. Check out my new blog at http://antshrike.blogspot.com/... antshrike 2007-03-12T02:57:01+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2007/03/frontera_audubon_thicket_3307.html With Surfbirds recent server problems I started a new blog. Check out http://antshrike.blogspot.com/... antshrike 2007-03-04T03:04:38+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2007/01/frontera_audubon_thicket_1.html Location: Frontera Audubon Center Observation date: 1/27/07 Number of species: 31 Plain Chachalaca 8 Cooper's Hawk 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Green Parakeet 10 Buff-bellied Hummingbird 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 5 Great Kiskadee 4 White-eyed Vireo 3 Blue-headed Vireo 2 Black-crested Titmouse... antshrike 2007-01-28T02:58:51+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2007/01/sal_del_rey.html After six days of cold wet weather, we finally got a nice day so I headed uo to Sal del Rey about 35 miles north west of Weslaco. Sal del Rey is a natural salt pan that drains the surrounding... antshrike 2007-01-25T03:26:11+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2007/01/frontera_audubon_thicket.html After a couple of years away from my blog I decided to get it going again. It was a cool, wet muddy morning at Frontera. Nothing of note . Eight species of warblers were nice but seems to be pretty... antshrike 2007-01-21T03:07:23+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2005/01/add_an_elegant_trogon_to_the_m.html The invasion of Mexican vagrant birds into the Rio Grande Valley continued this weekend with a young male Elegant Trogon joining the White-throated Robin and Crimson-collared Grosbeaks already at Frontera Audubon thicket. They make the Black-headed Grosbeak, a rare bird... antshrike 2005-01-18T17:52:34+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2005/01/rio_grande_valley_winter_20045.html This is a list of Mexican vagrants seen in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas during the past two months. It's been a few months since the Blue Mockingbird and Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush have been seen. Green-breasted Mango Rose-throated Becard... antshrike 2005-01-10T18:44:52+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2005/01/second_usa_record_of_social_fl.html Lately I've been doing a lot of that kind of birding that I don't really enjoy. Standing around with a bunch of other birders waiting for some mega-rarity to show up. This weekend I had one long wait and one... antshrike 2005-01-10T03:25:14+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2005/01/whitethroated_robin_at_fronter.html A White-throated Robin was found on Jan. 2 at the amazing Frontera Audubon Thicket in Weslaco. Staging its own mini-invasion, this is the third sighting of this Mexican Turdid species for the Rio Grande Valley in the past two weeks.... antshrike 2005-01-05T21:17:56+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2005/01/blacklegged_kittywake_at_boca.html Checked my email on the morning of Dec. 31 and found that an immature Black-legged Kittywake had been found at the Boca Chica jetty. My wife Honey was tired from our all day excursion to Salineno the day before so... antshrike 2005-01-04T02:11:30+00:00 /blogs/antshrike/archives/2004/12/crimsoncollared_grosbeaks_stil.html The Rio Grande Valley experienced it's first snow since 1895 and it's first white Christmas ever as one inch of the fluffy white stuff coated practically everything. Temperatures dipped as low as 28 F and spent at least 12 hours... antshrike 2004-12-30T00:08:23+00:00