This Red-legged Honeycreeper Cyanerpes cyaneus was at Estero Llano Grande State Park, Weslaco, Hidalgo county, Texas on November 28, 2014. It had been discovered the previous day, and after the initial views proved to be skittish and hard to locate, being seen only briefly on one or two occasions on subsequent days. Per Peter Pyle it is a Hatching Year bird, and probably a female (by this date HY males typically show some signs of male plumage in the wings and/or contour feathers.) This species breeds as close to Texas as southernmost Tamaulipas, and the birds in the northermost part of its range are migratory, leaving the area from Tamaulipas to southern Veracruz and most of the Yucatan for the winter:
