"Fall" migration of shorebirds apparently has started. Mike Austin Friendswood ----- Forwarded Message ----- El Franco Lee Park, Harris, US-TX Jul 19, 2013 7:33 AM - 8:33 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.7 mile(s) Comments: Retention pond drying due to drought & has wide, muddy margins 36 species Wood Duck 30 Mottled Duck 12 Wood Stork 3 Neotropic Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 4 Great Egret 1 Snowy Egret 30 Little Blue Heron 1 "Pied" bird Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 White Ibis 25 White-faced Ibis 3 Cooper's Hawk 1 Carrying prey Killdeer 12 Black-necked Stilt 41 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Least Sandpiper 21 Stilt Sandpiper 3 Still in alternate plumage Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Still in alternate plumage Laughing Gull 2 Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 Mourning Dove 8 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Heard only Chimney Swift 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Loggerhead Shrike 1 Blue Jay 3 Barn Swallow 1 Carolina Chickadee 4 Carolina Wren 5 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 50 Northern Cardinal 4 Great-tailed Grackle 10 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