herlihy@HERLIHY.CAMELOT.CS.CMU.EDU (Maurice Herlihy) (03/29/88)
This is a trip report for a visit to Texas, 23 March - 27 March. The highlight of the trip was a female Red-Collared Grosbeak (!) seen at the Aransas refuge on 27 March. According to a note at the visitor center, this is the first Gulf record for this Mexican species. The second highlight was a flock of Golden-Cheeked Warblers seen at Pedernales State Park near Austin on 23 March. Austin area: Great-tailed Grackle Golden Crowned Kinglet Ruby Crowned Kinglet Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Coot Pie-billed Grebe Turkey Vulture Double Crested Cormorant Brown-headed Cowbird N. Cardinal M. Dove Black-Crested Nuthatch Yellow-rumped Warbler Am. Tree Sparrow Mourning Dove Rockport/Aransas: Horned Grebe Eared Grebe White Pelican Brown Pelican G.B. Heron Tricolored Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Reddish Egret Wood Storks (?) Whooping Cranes Northern Shovelers Black Bellied Wh. Duck Blue W. Teal Green W. Teal Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Inca dove Stilt Cattle Egret Canvasback Killdeer Willet Spotted Sandpiper Dowitcher Laughing Gull Foster's Tern Ring-billed Gull Black Skimmer Black Vulture Crested Caracara Common Loon Long-billed Curlew Royal Tern Caspian Tern Mottled Duck Roseate Sponbill Loggerhead Shrike White Ibis Red-breasted Merganser Red-winged Blackbird Marsh Hawk Avocet Gatwall White-faced Ibis N. Pintail Common Moorhen Black-bellied Plover Sanderling Yellow-billed Cuckoo Belted Kingfisher Brown Thrasher Greater Roadrunner Am. Catbird I was attending a conference, so I couldn't spend too much time birding. I suspect a month later would have been more productive, although I did manage to catch the window after Golden-cheeked Warblers arrived and before the Whooping Cranes left.