Texas Day 10

We left our hotel in Harlingen pretty early to rendezvous for a birding boat trip out of Port Isabel with a lady, Scarlet Coffey. Scarlet was friendly and enthusiastic - clearly a lover of all things natural. And she showed us our main target bird quite quickly which was the Mangrove form of the Yellow Warbler. I would have liked to stay there a bit longer to try to get a photo but it was not to be and we went off looking for other birds and, of course, her beloved Dolphins.

Brown Pelicans

Molting immature Little blue Heron - white phase

Herring Gull + Laughing Gulls

White phase Reddish Egret

Osprey

Double crested cormorant

Royal Tens

Next on the agenda was South Padre Island where the main attraction was the birding out of the Convention Centre. This area is fantastic; lots of wetland and coastal species plus quite a few trees and bushes make for quite a decent migrant trap.

Convention Centre Boardwalk

Convention Centre Boardwalk

Redheads

alligator

Skimmers with Ruddy Turnstone in centre

Roseate Spoonbill

Reddish Egret

Green Heron

Sora

Blackpoll Warbler

Black and White Warbler

Black and white Warbler

Lincoln's Sparrow

Yellow Warbler

Grey Catbird

Common Yellowthroat

Indigo Bunting

Bronzed Cowboy - now you don't see it....

now you do..

We also visited another little wood lot on Sheephead Road where we got some more migrants.

Northern Waterthrush

Northern Waterthrush

To finish off the day we drove down the Old Isabel Port Road looking and finding Falcons. We found them and a few other species as well.

Eastern Meadowlark

Texas Spiny Lizard

Aplomado Falcon

White tailed Hawk