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  • Blackbirds, Boboling, Red-Winged Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Tri-Colored Blackbird, Yellow-Headed Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Brown-Headed Cowbird, Great-Tailed Grackle, European Starling
    Just 10 miles inland from Boca Chica Beach is Palmito Hill, another of my favorite birding locations. On my way to the beach, I stopped to scout the birding opportunities. It yielded a White-Tailed Hawk. I found a pair of them there in January, and it seems they were still in the area. Later, the mouth of the Rio Grande provided some excitement of its own.
  • Herons, Egrets, American Bittern, Snowy Egret, Little Blue Heron, Least Bittern, Green Heron, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Black-Crowned Night-Heron, Cattle Egret
    Just 10 miles inland from Boca Chica Beach is Palmito Hill, another of my favorite birding locations. On my way to the beach, I stopped to scout the birding opportunities. It yielded a White-Tailed Hawk. I found a pair of them there in January, and it seems they were still in the area. Later, the mouth of the Rio Grande provided some excitement of its own.
  • Gulls, Sea-Gulls, Heermann's Gull, Ring-Billed Gull, California Gull, Laughing Gull, Bonaparte's Gull, Yellow-Footed Gull, Glaucus-Winged Gull, Western Gull, Herring Gull
    Just 10 miles inland from Boca Chica Beach is Palmito Hill, another of my favorite birding locations. On my way to the beach, I stopped to scout the birding opportunities. It yielded a White-Tailed Hawk. I found a pair of them there in January, and it seems they were still in the area. Later, the mouth of the Rio Grande provided some excitement of its own.
  • Gamebirds, Partridges, Grouse, Chuckar, Spruce Grouse, Gambel's Quail, Greater Sage Grouse, Common Pheasant, Mountain Quail, Willow Ptarmigan, California Quail, Wild Turkey
    Just 10 miles inland from Boca Chica Beach is Palmito Hill, another of my favorite birding locations. On my way to the beach, I stopped to scout the birding opportunities. It yielded a White-Tailed Hawk. I found a pair of them there in January, and it seems they were still in the area. Later, the mouth of the Rio Grande provided some excitement of its own.
  • Flycatchers, Olive-Sided Flycatcher, Hammond's Flycatcher, Cassin's Kingbird, Western Wood Pewee, Dusky Flycatcher, Phainopepla, Alder Flycatcher, Pacific Slope Flycatcher,Ash-Throated Flycatcher
    Just 10 miles inland from Boca Chica Beach is Palmito Hill, another of my favorite birding locations. On my way to the beach, I stopped to scout the birding opportunities. It yielded a White-Tailed Hawk. I found a pair of them there in January, and it seems they were still in the area. Later, the mouth of the Rio Grande provided some excitement of its own.
  • Finches, White-Winged Crossbill, Cassin's Finch, Lesser Goldfinch, Lawrence's Goldfinch, American Goldfinch, Gray-Crowned Rosy-Finch, Purple Finch
    Just 10 miles inland from Boca Chica Beach is Palmito Hill, another of my favorite birding locations. On my way to the beach, I stopped to scout the birding opportunities. It yielded a White-Tailed Hawk. I found a pair of them there in January, and it seems they were still in the area. Later, the mouth of the Rio Grande provided some excitement of its own.
  • Corvids, Crows, Jays, Black-Billed Magpie, Steller's Jay, Clark's Nutcracker, American Crow, Common Raven, Western Scrub-Jay, Black-Throated Magpie-Jay, Mexican Jay, Yellow-Billed Magpie
    Just 10 miles inland from Boca Chica Beach is Palmito Hill, another of my favorite birding locations. On my way to the beach, I stopped to scout the birding opportunities. It yielded a White-Tailed Hawk. I found a pair of them there in January, and it seems they were still in the area. Later, the mouth of the Rio Grande provided some excitement of its own.
  • Pelicans and Cormorants, Brown Pelican, Double-Crested Cormorant, American White Pelican, Neotropic Cormorant, Pelagic Cormorant, Brandt's Cormorant
    Just 10 miles inland from Boca Chica Beach is Palmito Hill, another of my favorite birding locations. On my way to the beach, I stopped to scout the birding opportunities. It yielded a White-Tailed Hawk. I found a pair of them there in January, and it seems they were still in the area. Later, the mouth of the Rio Grande provided some excitement of its own.
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Palmito Hill Texas

2021-03-27 Palmito Hill & Boca Chica Beach
2021-03-27 Palmito Hill & Boca Chica Beach

Just 10 miles inland from Boca Chica Beach is Palmito Hill, another of my favorite birding locations. On my way to the beach, I stopped to scout the birding opportunities.…

2021-01-26 A Day at Palmito Hill
2021-01-26 A Day at Palmito Hill

Fog was so thick, at 50 feet things faded from my view, and at 100 feet I could barely make out the shapes ahead of me while I drove. That…

Memories of Palmito Hill Texas
Memories of Palmito Hill Texas

Near the lowest end of the Rio Grande, less than ten miles from where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico, is the wide plain called Palmito Hill. Covered…

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