Texas birds are easy!
830!
Numero ochocientos y treinta! Audubon’s Oriole at Salineno Reserve on the Rio Grande.
Back in town, Least Grebes were hard to find earlier in the year, but in good numbers now along the Rio Grande.
Great Kiskadee
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Updated hit list:
Northeast – plans are in progress
Purple Sandpiper
Great Cormorant
Dovekie
Later in the Northeast, if luck provides…
Black-headed Gull
Barnacle Goose
Florida in winter:
Short-tailed Hawk
Los Angeles in next couple of days:
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
Kodiak Island winter:
Steller’s Eider
Oahu:
Mariana Swiftlet
Yellow-faced Grassquit (unlikely)
Other possible targets?:
Gray-headed Chickadee Alaska
Least Storm-Petrel San Diego
Whooper Swan Alaska end of year
Hopeful imaginings for winter vagrants persist…
