I woke up at 5am this morning and thought about getting up to give an early try for the Roadside Hawk at Resaca de la Palma State Park in Cameron County.� But I went back to sleep and didn't...
I woke up at 5am this morning and thought about getting up to give an early try for the Roadside Hawk at Resaca de la Palma State Park in Cameron County.� But I went back to sleep and didn't wake up till 7:30.� As I got up I thought people were probably looking at the Roadside Hawk right now.� At that moment the WhatsApp dinged and Mary Beth Stowe posted crippling photos of said hawk.� Well, good for her.� I took my time and didn't get over till 11 when I learned that the Roadside Hawk had posed for an hour and then disappeared.
I looked around the parking lot for a while and eventually ran into some butterfly watcher friends who had just found a nice passerine flock near the road to the maintenance area.� We looked for a possible Cassin's Vireo but could not find it.� They wandered off to look for the reported Blue Bunting and I continued working the parking area when a couple of young birders galloped out of the maintenance area with binocs and cameras focused on something I couldn't see.� They ran some more and shouted they were after the Roadside Hawk.� It landed a couple of times before I could get these poor photos.
