Hudsonian Godwit

 

Two birds to go.  Golden winged warbler and hudsonian godwit.

 

Today we continued the godwit quest.  Up at 4am for a drive to the Valley.  Estero Llano Grande State Park, the most recent place to report the hudsonian godwit.  They reported them early in the day, so we were there before 8am.  We spent four hours there.  We saw eighty birds.  We saw some really cool ones; fulvous whistling ducks, least grebes, least bitterns in a nest, green herons, stilt sandpipers, ground doves, white tipped doves, parrots, cuckoos, groove billed anis, common pauraques, green kingfishers, chestnut sided and blackburnian warblers.  We saw and heard a hundred of those darned chachalacas Jon and I couldn’t get on the big day.  They were everywhere just like they’re supposed to be. 

 

We didn’t see any hudsonian godwits.  We drove home.

 

Two birds to go.