[texbirds] Baytown Nature Center 7/9/12
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- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 20:08:57 -0400 (EDT)
I started this morning around 10 AM in a drizzling rain and 74 degrees
which was very nice. The heavy overcast made for poor pictures but maybe a few
more birds out and about.
List:
Great Blue Heron
Little Blue heron
Tricolored Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Roseatte Spoonbill
Green Heron
Great-tailed grackle
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
European Starling
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (one pair with 3 very young chicks)
Northern Mockingbird
Scissortail Flycatcher
Loggerheaded Shrike
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Least Tern
Sandwich Tern
Double-creasted Cormorant
Brown Pelican
Common Nighthawk(4 of these looked like they could have been young of the
year)
Mourning Dove
White-winged Dove
Northern Cardinal
Black-necked Stilts
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
Killdeer
Turkey Vulture
Pictures (3)
_http://hansonnaturephotography.smugmug.com/Nature/Texas-Birds/17293655_vKBN
QB#!i=1955472315&k=D6J92Cp_
(http://hansonnaturephotography.smugmug.com/Nature/Texas-Birds/17293655_vKBNQB#!i=1955472315&k=D6J92Cp)
Back here at home we were suddenly covered up with Common Grackles this
morning.
David Hanson
Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area
Cliff Swallow
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