K Dixon 1951 Journal March 2. 4 mi. SE Rio Grande City, Starr Co., Texas After spending the night in Mission Hidalgo County, I drove W Toward Rio Grande City; I turned off the highway to the S on to property of the Starr Farm Co. After fully half an hour of "no habla ingles" and conversations with lesser employees, I met the foreman, who, as he put it, did not forbid me to hunt in an area of mesquite thicket. I worked along the edge of the first level above the river bottom and in some cottonland as well from 8:40 until about 10:00. The sun shone and the wind blew up the valley as usual. The vegetation of the river bottom area of 5 acres or so was much less densely wooded than anything on the Refuge - it had been thinned considerably. To E and W, fields were under cultivation and to the N, on the first level above the riverbed, there were mesquite thickets. I worked in the latter area from 10:00 until 10:50 and noted the following: birds: Green Jay, Black-created Titmouse, White-eyed Vireo, Black-throated Shrew, Bewick Wren (song), Roadrunner. I took a & Ladder-backed Woodpecker, my attention being called to her by the call note "pich". Earlier I had heard a whirry from a woodpecker, more broken and labored than that of D. Nuttallii. Birds of the river bottom (including those seen 10:50 - 11:10: Green Jay, Carolina Wren, Cardinal, Blue-gray Gratecather, Titmouse, Mockingbird, Merill's Parakeet (one flushed from bank in bushy area at 9:00 am), Andulbur Oriole (one taken at close range mistaken for a jay - good only for a skeleton.