[texbirds] Baytown Nature Center Bird Count 3/19/14
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- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:02:46 -0400 (EDT)
Yesterday we had a good bird count with 69 species. Probably the biggest
surprise of the day was a high count of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers and
Pied-billed Grebes. There were also more Blue-winged Teal than normal as well.
You
will notice we did find the White-winged Scoter off of the Scott's Bay
Overlook and it moved quickly down towards Wooster Point. The Clay-colored
Sparrow was still around the butterfly garden as well. We did not find any
Eastern Towhees this month although there were two there last Monday. I would
like to thank Dwayne, Chuck, Lana, Marilyn, and Bob for coming out and joining
me. One thing to keep in mind if you are coming out there have been quite
a few gnats on calm days and a few mosquitos are beginning to show up.
Today I was out for a Master Naturalist training class and while the Nature
Center naturalist was giving a opening on the park an adult Bald Eagle
flew by right on que.
69 Species
2 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis 27 Gadwall
Anas strepera 5 American Wigeon Anas americana 7 Mottled Duck Anas
fulvigula 23 Blue-winged Teal Anas discors 2 Northern Pintail Anas acuta 4
Green-winged Teal Anas crecca 7 Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis 1 White-winged
Scoter Melanitta fusca 28 Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps 11 Neotropic
Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus 4 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax
auritus 3 Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis 3 Great Blue Heron Ardea
herodias 6 Great Egret Ardea alba 17 Snowy Egret Egretta thula 1 Little
Blue Heron Egretta caerulea 12 Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis 8 White Ibis
Eudocimus albus 1 Black Vulture Coragyps atratus 1 Turkey Vulture Cathartes
aura 2 Osprey Pandion haliaetus 1 Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus 9
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus 4 Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius 3 Lesser
Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes 2 Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata 150 Laughing
Gull Leucophaeus atricilla 18 Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis 8 Herring
Gull Larus argentatus 10 Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri 1 Royal Tern
Thalasseus maximus 2 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Columba livia (Domestic type)
15 White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica 6 Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura 1
Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus 2 Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus 1 Downy Woodpecker Picoides
pubescens 1 Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus 1 Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus
pileatus 1 Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe 1 Loggerhead Shrike Lanius
ludovicianus 1 Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata 6 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Stelgidopteryx serripennis 1 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica 1 Carolina
Chickadee Poecile carolinensis 1 Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor 2 Marsh
Wren
Cistothorus palustris 4 Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus 24
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus
calendula
2 Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis 15 Northern Mockingbird Mimus
polyglottos 25 European Starling Sturnus vulgaris 3 Orange-crowned Warbler
Oreothlypis celata 3 Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas 7 Yellow-rumped
Warbler
(Myrtle) Setophaga coronata coronata 1 Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella
pallida 8 Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis 2 Swamp Sparrow
Melospiza georgiana 4 White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis 15
White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys 14 Northern Cardinal Cardinalis
cardinalis 15 Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus 1 Common Grackle
Quiscalus
quiscula 5 Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus 35 Brown-headed Cowbird
Molothrus ater 2 House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus
David Hanson
Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area
Chambers County
Galveston Bay Area Master Naturalist
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