[texbirds] Baytown Nature Center Bird Count 6/20/13

  • From: DHanson139@xxxxxxx
  • To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:53:43 -0400 (EDT)

This morning  three of us did the BNC Bird Count. We Started at 7:00  AM 
and the heat was really not to bad. We finished by 11 AM. The list is below.  
Best birds of the day were Osprey, Orchard Orioles, a single Belted 
Kingfisher  and 4 very little Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks
       45 species  total      10 Black-bellied  Whistling-Duck  1 Mallard  
4 Mottled Duck  2 Pied-billed  Grebe  3 Neotropic  Cormorant  1 
Double-crested  Cormorant  15 Brown Pelican  7 Great Blue  Heron  8 Great Egret 
 14 
Snowy Egret  7 Little Blue  Heron  10 Tricolored  Heron  5 Cattle Egret  2 
Green 
Heron  4 Black-crowned  Night-Heron  14 Yellow-crowned  Night-Heron  9 
White Ibis  3 Roseate  Spoonbill  1 Osprey  11 Killdeer  4 Black-necked  Stilt  
16 Laughing Gull  2 Least Tern  40 White-winged  Dove  15 Mourning Dove  4 
Common  Nighthawk  8 Chimney Swift  1 Belted  Kingfisher  5 Red-bellied  
Woodpecker  1 Downy  Woodpecker  3 Scissor-tailed  Flycatcher  1 Loggerhead  
Shrike  3 Blue Jay  6 Purple Martin  2 Tree Swallow  16 Barn Swallow  1 swallow 
sp.  11 Carolina Wren  19 Northern  Mockingbird  25 European  Starling  7 
Northern  Cardinal  7 Common Grackle  4 Great-tailed  Grackle  6 Brown-headed 
 Cowbird  2 Orchard Oriole  6  
House Sparrow
 
David  Hanson
Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area
Chambers County
Galveston Bay Area  Master Naturalist
TOS Member

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