Six people showed up for a beautiful day of birding at the Baytown Nature Center and as you will see below we had a nice day. Some highlights were the adult Bald Eagle, a Brown Creeper and two Red-breasted Mergansers. David Hanson Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:00 AM Protocol: Traveling Party Size: 6 Duration: 4 hrs Distance: 4.6 miles Observers: Comments: Monthly Bird Count for Baytown Nature Center Species 69 species total 16 Gadwall 3 Northern Shoveler 6 Green-winged Teal 8 Hooded Merganser 2 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Common Loon 9 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Neotropic Cormorant 35 Double-crested Cormorant 3 American White Pelican 20 Brown Pelican 11 Great Blue Heron 10 Great Egret 14 Snowy Egret 1 Tricolored Heron 7 Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 White Ibis 4 Black Vulture 4 Turkey Vulture 3 Osprey 3 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 18 Killdeer 8 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Willet 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Sanderling 1 Western Sandpiper 35 Least Sandpiper 26 Laughing Gull 2 Ring-billed Gull 8 Royal Tern 33 White-winged Dove 6 Mourning Dove 3 Belted Kingfisher 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Crested Caracara 4 American Kestrel 5 Eastern Phoebe 5 Loggerhead Shrike 16 Blue Jay 5 Carolina Chickadee 1 Brown Creeper 1 Marsh Wren 4 Carolina Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 11 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 21 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 32 European Starling 1 Pine Warbler 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Savannah Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 7 Northern Cardinal 291 Red-winged Blackbird 25 Common Grackle 3 Great-tailed Grackle 7 American Goldfinch 12 House Sparrow Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner