Friday, January 28, 2011

Last Sunday

We took an all-day drive to Falcon State Park and Salineno. Falcon State Park is right on the border with Mexico (as is most everything else down here). It hit the news last year when there was some violence against a jetskier who ventured to the other side of the lake. Scary stuff, but there haven’t been any birding fatalities, so we went anyway.

We stayed on our side of the river and got some good birds for the year. Mallard, Western Meadowlark, Hermit Thrush, Lark Sparrow, Scaled Quail, and Cactus Wren at the State Park, then Clay–colored Sparrow, Hooded Oriole, Eastern Screech-Owl, and Audubon’s Oriole at Salineno.

Three orioles for the day. Here’s the Altamira oriole:



We took an all-day drive to Falcon State Park and Salineno. Falcon State Park is right on the border with Mexico (as is most everything else down here). It hit the news last year when there was some violence against a jetskier who ventured to the other side of the lake. Scary stuff, but there haven’t been any birding fatalities, so we went anyway.



We stayed on our side of the river and got some good birds for the year. Mallard, Western Meadowlark, Hermit Thrush, Lark Sparrow, Scaled Quail, and Cactus Wren at the State Park, then Clay–colored Sparrow, Hooded Oriole, Eastern Screech-Owl, and Audubon’s Oriole at Salineno.



Three orioles for the day. Here’s the Altamira oriole.




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