Trip Report - Tacambaro - March 2-4. 2012

For the weekend of March 2-4, Hazel and Ryon came over from Joco (short for Jocotepec, which is on the shore of Lake Chapala). They're the ones who instigated last year's trip to Colima.  See previous posting about that trip if you're interested in the birds of Colima. 
Sorry, there are no photos this time, just data re birds seen/heard (not in taxonomic order).  I was busy watching birds....oh so lazy......

For me, the best bird of the trip was found at the top of Cerro Burro.  A hybrid hummingbird:  Magnificient x Berylline.  I've been asked to head back to the mountain to try for a photo.  Watch for another post if I succeed, even with my point and shoot camera. 

Location - Rio Corucha:

Orange-crowned warbler
Wilson's warbler
Golden vireo
White-collared seedeater
Blue grosbeak
White-throated robin
Blue mockingbird
Vermilion flycatcher
Striped-headed sparrow
Lazuli bunting
Rufous-capped brushfinch
Ferruginous pygmy-owl
Violet-crowned hummingbird
Ash-throated flycatcher
Canyon wren
Groove-billed ani
Turkey vulture
Black vulture
Northern rough-winged swallow
Social flycatcher
Greater kiskadee
Western tanager
Thick-billed kingbird
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Hooded oriole
Golden-crowned emerald
Happy wren
Tropical kingbird
Dusky-capped flycatcher
Hepatic tanager
Cassin's kingbird
White-napped swifts (somebody had cut a path to the top of the waterfall - this was my first opportunity to see the cascada, so now I know how to get there in the future when the plants are too overgrown to see the waterfall.)

Location - Arroyo Frio

Green kingfisher
Wilson's warbler
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Canyon wren
Fan-tailed warbler
White-throated robin
Rufous-backed thrush
? empid
Inca dove
Turkey vulture
Black vulture
Happy wren
Nashville warbler
Berylline hummingbird

Location - Cerro Hueco:

Great-tailed grackle
Rufous-backed robin
Warbling vireo
Inca dove
Canyon towhee
Lincoln's sparrow
Black-headed grosbeak
Bullock's oriole
Rusty sparrow
Stripe-headed sparrow
Cassin's kingbird
Say's phoebe
Northern mockingbird

White-crowned sparrow (I didn't see or hear this bird.  I am not counting it on my list even tho' it would be a new Mexican bird for me....But Ryon insisted that's what he saw and he was insistent  about it since it's seen at Lake Chapala.)

American robin
Varied bunting
Blue-black grassquit (basic plumage)
Northern rough-winged sparrow
Berylline hummingbird
Black-headed siskin
Wilson's warbler
Eastern bluebird
Blue mockingbird
Northern raven
Chipping sparrow
House sparrow
House wren
House finch
Vermilion flycatcher
Nashville warbler
Blue gray gnatcatcher
American kestrel
Blue grosbeak
Bewick's wren
Lesser goldfinch
Bronze cowbird
Black-vented oriole
Hepatic tanager

Location - road to Tecurio

Squirrel cuckoo
Eastern bluebird
Lincoln's sparrow
Nashville warbler
Golden-cheeked woodpecker
Acorn woodpecker
Rusty sparrow
? empid  ?Least
Turkey vulture
Black vulture
Cassin's kingbird
White-tipped dove
Vermilion flycatcher
Great pewee
Yellow-rumped warbler

Location - Cerro Burro:

Red-tailed hawk
Horned lark
Chipping sparrow
American robin
American kestrel
Say's phoebe
Townsend's warbler
Hourse finch
Pine siskin
Elegant euphonia
Eastern bluebird
Western bluebird
Northern raven
American coot
Cassin's kingbird
Yellow-eyed junco
Northern harrier
Barn swallow
Canyon towhee
Hybrid towhee (Spotted x Collared)
Buff-breasted flycatcher
Lesser roadrunner
Slate-throated redstart
Steller's jay
Rufous-capped brush-finch
Social flycatcher
Lesser goldfinch
Red warbler
Ladder-backed woodpecker
White-eared hummingbird
Osprey
Hepatic tanager
Golden-browed warbler
Hutton's vireo
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Hermit warbler
Warbling vireo
Black-headed grosbeak
Hybrid hummingbird (Magnficent x Berylline) near top of Cerro Burro