Birding with the Bay Area Birders

We have spent most of our Thursdays down here with our birding group, the Bay Area Birders. We didn't join them last week but this week met them at Hugh Ramsey Nature Park aka Arroyo Colorado in Harlingen.

First thing we saw a green kingfisher. They are very small and has an outsized bill. Without rusty markings on the chest this is a female.

Great kiskadee

Olive sparrow.

I had a heck of a time getting a shot of the verdin. Its head is the same colour as the huisache blooms and at no time did it move in front of the branches.

At one of the feeding areas a javelina (collared peccary) was rooting around.

There was a hooded oriole but I didn't get a shot of it. I had to settle for the Altamira oriole.

The notch of orange at the shoulder is a diagnostic for the Altamira oriole.

Green jay.

We were treated to the appearances of the long-billed thrasher

and a curve-billed thrasher at the same time.

 Golden fronted woodpecker.

It was a pretty good morning of birding.

We then went to Judy's Stitchery Nook (the subject of my next post), lunch at Vicky's in San Benito, then back to the condo for naps.