Hello Birders, The intense winds (and 9 caliche delivery trucks....) kept many birds under wraps today, with numbers and species counts down, but the sight of a dozen or so Long Billed Curlews in flight and calling always puts a smile on our faces.... Birding tours at Bahia Grande and Laguna Atascosa begin at 8:30 am every Thurs-Monday (Reservations required) with casual bird walks around the visitor center at 2pm Thursdays thru Sundays. Come and join us! Cary Atwood & Leon Thurmon Volunteers Laguna Atascosa NWR Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Cameron, US-TX Feb 20, 2014 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Protocol: eBird Trail Tracker Comments: Bahia Grande Bird Tour 30 species Mottled Duck 1 Redhead 103 Red-breasted Merganser 4 Double-crested Cormorant 3 American White Pelican 75 Brown Pelican 2 Great Blue Heron 12 Great Egret 3 Reddish Egret 5 Turkey Vulture 2 Osprey 8 Northern Harrier 4 Harris's Hawk 2 White-tailed Hawk 2 Sandhill Crane 2 American Avocet 1 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Long-billed Curlew 13 Royal Tern 8 Crested Caracara 5 American Kestrel 1 Peregrine Falcon 2 Loggerhead Shrike 2 Horned Lark 3 Northern Mockingbird 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) 2 Cassin's Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 15 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Eastern Meadowlark 13 -- www.friendsofsouthtexasrefuges.org 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