Baytown Nature Center bird count for 4/17/13 Best birds of day a white phase Reddish Egret and a Least Tern Many thanks to my wife Jan and to Chuck Davis for helping with the count. 68 species 36 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 3 Mottled Duck 34 Blue-winged Teal 3 Green-winged Teal 3 Pied-billed Grebe 20 Neotropic Cormorant 8 Brown Pelican 6 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 12 Snowy Egret 2 Little Blue Heron 7 Tricolored Heron 1 Reddish Egret (white phase) 1 Cattle Egret 3 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 35 White Ibis 2 Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Clapper Rail 1 Sora 8 Black-necked Stilt 7 Killdeer 4 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 6 Willet 52 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Western Sandpiper 2 Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Herring Gull 35 Laughing Gull 3 Forster's Tern 1 Least Tern 3 Royal Tern 3 Rock Pigeon 12 White-winged Dove 11 Mourning Dove 2 Chimney Swift 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Crested Caracara 2 Eastern Kingbird 9 Blue Jay 13 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 2 Loggerhead Shrike 1 Purple Martin 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 14 Barn Swallow 1 Carolia Chickadee 2 Marsh Wren 5 Carolina Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 European Starling 23 Northern Mockingbird 34 Cedar Waxwing 1 Northern Waterthrush 5 Savannah Sparrow 4 Swamp Sparrow 19 White-crowned Sparrow 30 Northern Cardinal 2 Indigo Bunting 82 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Common Grackle 24 Great-tailed Grackle 10 Brown-headed Cowbird 3 Orchard Oriole 6 House Sparrow 644 birds David Hanson Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area Chambers County 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