Birding Queretaro Blog is back after an absence of 12 months. Expect plenty of reports and pictures of birds and other wildlife both from Queretaro and the rest of Mexico.
Near the railway tracks towards the east of Tequisquiapan yesterday were a lot of familiar birds - plenty of Cactus Wrens, Curve-billed Thrashers, Canyon Towhees, Inca Doves, White-winged Doves, Great-tailed Grackles, Cassins Kingbirds, Barn Swallows and Cattle Egrets. Also near the tracks were a few Northern Cardinals, a species I haven't encountered before in QRO.
I had a quick visit to the Presa Centenario in the evening. This is a good time for return wader migration, and things seemed to be hotting up at the reservoir. Feeding around the edges near the dam were at least 200 Least Sandpipers, 80 Baird's Sandpipers, 10 Wilson's Phalaropes, 10 Killdeers, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs and a few Spotted Sandpipers. Not a bad collection, and likely to increase as the month goes on.
Baird's Sandpiper, Presa Centenario
Wilson's Phalaropes, Presa Centenario
A hurricane in the gulf is expected to bring lots of rain over the next few days, and there's a fair chance that a few good birds might be brought inland as well..
I keep looking out for one of those species on French shores ... Not impossible but would be a mega. Its the right time to look for them in any case.
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