Sunday, March 9, 2008

Choke canyon state park/lake corpus christi

Non-birders just hang up now. Hit the delete key. We took a day trip to Choke Canyon State Park and Lake Corpus Christi.

Black bellied whistling duck

Fulvous whistling duck

Greater white fronted goose

Snow goose

Ross’s goose

American wigeon

Mallard

Mottled duck

Blue winged teal

Green winged teal

Canvasback

Redhead

Ring necked duck

Pied billed grebe

American white pelican

Neotropic cormorant

Double crested cormorant

Anhinga

Great blue heron

Great egret

Snowy egret

Cattle egret

Black vulture

Turkey vulture

Osprey

Cooper’s hawk

Crested caracara

American kestrel

Common moorhen

American coot

Killdeer

Black necked stilt

Long billed curlew

Laughing gull

Ring billed gull

White winged dove

Mourning dove

Golden fronted woodpecker

Vermilion flycatcher

Great kiskadee

Couch’s kingbird

Scissor tailed flycatcher

Loggerhead shrike

Green jay

Purple martin

Cave swallow

Barn swallow

Bewik’s wren

Ruby crowned kinglet

Northern mocking bird

European starling

Yellow rumped warbler

Chipping sparrow

Northern cardinal

Pyrrhuloxia

Red winged blackbird

Eastern meadowlark

Great tailed grackle

American goldfinch

Saw some deer, but no javelina. No wild turkeys. No roadrunners or phoebes. Always miss a few things.