[birdky] Sloughs Thursday afternoon tour

2/26/09

2:30PM to 5:30PM
66º overcast, south wind at 20 gusting to near 30, temp. dropping to 64º

Sloughs

Henderson Co.

Wood Tract, Crenshaw Tract
TUNDRA SWANS 4 north of 268 at 5:30, none were there at 2:30
Canada Geese streaming west from 3PM to 4PM (don't know where they were going) 
Greater White-fronted geese - only one small V overhead
Mallards
Gadwalls
Pintails
Green-winged Teals
Am. Widgeons
Shovelers
Hooded Mergansers (at 268 slough)
LESSER YELLOWLEGS 7, across 268 from Wood Tract, FOS
Killdeer big numbers, they were everywhere
Bald Eagle 1 adult over nest south of Anderson Pond
Robins abundant everywhere

Union Co.

Grassy Pond/Powell's Lake Unit

Great Blue Heron

at Honey Cypress Slough
100s of Mallards
Green-wined Teals
Pintails
Gadwalls
Am. Widgeons

Turtles sunning with no sun.
Frogs croaking.

No Snow Geese seen.

Charlie
Henderson Co.




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