There have been only two Louisiana Waterthrush banded prior to the 2 we are seeing now. 7/25/1979, 3/23/2002 (Betty). The Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, McKinney, TX Bird Banding & Census Report Wednesday, May 1, 2014 Banding Team: Betty, Craig, Denise, Jeff, Karen, Linda and Tom Total species banded - 9 Total birds banded - 19 Traill's Flycatcher - 1 Lincoln's Sparrow - 3 Northern Cardinal - 2 Painted Bunting - 1 Nashville Warbler - 2 Northern Waterthrush - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 2 House Wren - 1 Swainson's Thrush - 5 --------------------------- Total species recaptured - 2 Total birds recaptured - 5 Northern Cardinal - 3 (Banded 4/28/2011, 10/23/2013, 11/9/2013) Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 (Banded 5/6/2013, 4/23/2014) --------------------------- Georgette's census Heard Nat. Sci. Mus.& Wildlife Sanct, Collin, US-TX May 1, 2014 7:40 AM - 12:40 PM Protocol: Traveling 3.0 miles 74 species Canada Goose 4 Wood Duck 7 Mallard 4 Blue-winged Teal 2 Hooded Merganser 9 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Great Blue Heron 8 Great Egret 18 Little Blue Heron 13 Cattle Egret 3 Green Heron 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 5 Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Mississippi Kite 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Swainson's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 3 Killdeer 1 White-winged Dove 1 Mourning Dove 2 Chimney Swift 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 5 Downy Woodpecker 5 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Least Flycatcher 3 Eastern Phoebe 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 4 White-eyed Vireo 5 Warbling Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 2 Fish Crow 1 Smaller slender black crow calling a single nasal note. At one point it give a two noted call "na na", then returned to the single noted call. Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 Purple Martin 13 Barn Swallow 11 Carolina Chickadee 8 Tufted Titmouse 5 House Wren 1 Carolina Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 Eastern Bluebird 3 Swainson's Thrush 7 Gray Catbird 2 Northern Mockingbird 1 European Starling 1 Cedar Waxwing 155 Northern Waterthrush 4 Prothonotary Warbler 5 Nashville Warbler 3 Northern Parula 2 Magnolia Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 4 Palm Warbler (Western) 1 Bird was first seen yesterday. Rufuos head crown,bright yellow throat and covert, light tan breast with thin streaks. Picture was taken Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow 14 Song Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 6 White-crowned Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal 22 Indigo Bunting 2 Painted Bunting 2 Red-winged Blackbird 8 Great-tailed Grackle 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 House Finch 3 American Goldfinch 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18166141 --------------------------- Tom Heath 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