| Greetings! November 9, 2008
San Nicholas Road.
We rounded up at Cristiania Park in Chapala and headed out the road to Mezcala on the segment to San Nicholas.
This was one of our most productive and enjoyable birding outings in quite some time. With the Lake at historic high levels the birds are concentrated in flooded pastures along the north shore east of Chapala on the road to San Nicholas. The weather was delightful -- 72 and sunny. Many people convey their gratitude to our Lead Birder Vince Gravel and to Stan Dunn for locating several sites along the Ribiera with excellent parking for a dozen cars. To that I would add special thanks to Supporting Bird Leaders Tom Holeman, Stan and Darnell Dunn, Don Bell, and Jeanne Greene. Here is today's list:including a sample of photos from Vince's birdsofmexico.blogspot.com.  - Pied-billed Grebe
 - American White Pelican
 - Neotropic Cormorant
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- Cattle Egret
- Tricolored Heron
- Green Heron
 - Black-crowned Night Heron
- White-faced Ibis (large feeding flocks)
- Mexican Duck
- Green-winged Teal
- Turkey Vulture
- Black Vulture
- White-tailed Kite
American Kestrel
- Merlin
- Common Moorhen
- American Coot
- Northern Jacana
- Killdeer
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Common (Wilson's) Snipe
- Black-necked Stilt
- Ring-billd Gull
- Rock Dove (feral pigeon)
- Inca Dove
- Groove-billed Ani
Broad-billed Hummingbird
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Berylline Hummingbird
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Vermillion Flycatcher (m + f)
- Western Kingbird
- Tropical Kingbird
- Social Flycatcher
- Great Kiskadee
- Tree Swallow
- Rough-winged Swallow
- Barn Swallow
- Curve-billed Thrasher
- Blue Mockingbird
- Rufous-backed Robin (Thrush)
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Black-vented Oriole
- Hooded Oriole
- Red-winged Blackbird (many in dry corn)
- Yellow-headed Blackbird (many, many in dry corn)
- Blue Grosbeak in corn field
- House Finch
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Canyon Towhee
- Lark Sparrow
- House Sparrow
AND ... a magnificent but, as yet unidentified lizard. Jeanne Green nominates the specimen with black head and belly and a green back and sides as a Sceloporus horridus horridus" aka the Horrible Spiny Lizard. T She has a colony of them near her house. For more information see: www.vivanatura.org
Any other nominations? Let us know what you think it is. Thanks for joining us for birding adventures.
Next up
Nov 18 Cristiania Park 8 am
Dec 17 Bird Identification Workshop
Dec 18 Third Annual Official Audubon Christmas Bird Count
Sincerely,
Allen y Judy (Turner y Boyd) Audubonistas de Laguna Chapala
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