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 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