The results of the Baytown Nature Center Bird count on 10/17/13 are below. Nine people braved the first real cold front of the year and had a nice cool outing. Birding was fair with us being between winter and summer species. Many thanks to everone who showed up to help thisw month. 61 species 2 Mottled Duck 19 American Avocet 2 Anhinga 18 Barn Swallow 6 Belted Kingfisher 5 Black Vulture 12 Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 20 Blue Jay 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 Broad-winged Hawk 9 Brown Pelican 7 Brown Thrasher 3 Carolina Chickadee 6 Carolina Wren 2 Chimney Swift 3 Clapper Rail 14 Common Grackle 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Cooper's Hawk 8 Double-crested Cormorant 8 Downy Woodpecker 105 European Starling 1 Forster's Tern 10 Great Blue Heron 16 Great Egret 11 Great-tailed Grackle 0 House Sparrow 6 Killdeer 242 Laughing Gull 8 Little Blue Heron 5 Loggerhead Shrike 16 Mourning Dove 31 Neotropic Cormorant 10 Northern Cardinal 21 Northern Mockingbird 41 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 Osprey 5 Pied-billed Grebe 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 11 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Ring-billed Gull 51 Rock Pigeon 17 Roseate Spoonbill 2 Royal Tern 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 11 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 35 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 3 Seaside Sparrow 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 38 Snowy Egret 2 Spotted Sandpiper 6 Tricolored Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 36 White Ibis 277 White-winged Dove 1 Willet 45 Wood Stork 4 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee David Hanson Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area Chambers County Galveston Bay Area Master Naturalist TOS Member 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