[texbirds] Sabine Woods 4/24/13

From: DHanson139@xxxxxxx
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:44:03 -0400 (EDT)
Jan and I hit Sabine Woods around 10 AM to find it a little slow but  
managed to pick 2-3 warblers early including a N Parula, Blackburnian and  
Black-throated Green. Headed to Sea Rim for Lunch and found it pretty slow 
also.  
There were a lot of Blue-winged Teal and Boat-tailed Grackles around but  
not much else up in the lagoons. The beach had a lot of Royal Terns and  
Sanderlings and a few Sandwich Terns. Headed to McFaddin for a few minutes and  
the first thing that greeted us was a pretty pink chested Franklin's Gull. 
Again  though it was mostly Royal and Sandwich Terns and a few Sanderlings and 
Laughing  Gulls with a couple of Herring Gulls mixed in. Sadly while 
driving the beach  there we found a dead Kemps-Ridley Sea Turtle that we phoned 
in 
to NOAA.
 
Back at Sabine Woods things started picking up late in the afternoon with  
us leaving with 13 warbler species and I know we missed Cerulean and  
Bay-breasted Warbler seen by others. As John Tharp mentioned about High Island  
there were lots of Summer and Scarlet Tanagers and Orchard Orioles with a few  
Baltimores thrown in as well.
 
Would anyone like to look at the last picture here and tell me which  
Nighthawk this is. I know default here is Common but just want to check. I have 
 
never seen one perched on a small limb like this one was.
 
http://hansonnaturephotography.smugmug.com/Nature/Texas-Birds/17293655_vKBNQ
B#!i=2475817089&k=QZtNMrq
 
List
Swallow-tailed Kite (perching in a tree)
Common Nighthawk
Blackburnian Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
N Parula
Yellow Warler
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush(4)
Tennessee (very abundant)
Black-throated Green Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
American Redstart
Black and White Warbler
Warbling Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo (very abundant)
Yellow-throated Vireo
Gray-checked Thrush
Brown Thrasher
Indigo Bunting
Blue Grosbeak
Dickcissel
Summer Tanager (very abundant)
Scarlet Tanager (very abundant)
Baltimore Oriole
Orchard Oriole (very abundant)
Red-winged Blackbird
Gray Catbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
 
David and Jan  Hanson
Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area
Chambers  County
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