Here are the results of the Baytown Nature Center Bird Count from last week on 8/15/13. I would again like to thank Chuck Davis for leading and the other participants for this count while I was out of town. 48 Species Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 11 Mottled Duck 3 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Neotropic Cormorant 14 Brown Pelican 46 Great Blue Heron 6 Great Egret 2 Snowy Egret 11 Little Blue Heron 6 Tricolored Heron 6 Green Heron 4 Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 19 White Ibis 31 Roseate Spoonbill 2 Northern Harrier 1 Accipiter sp. 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Clapper Rail 1 Killdeer 13 Black-necked Stilt 18 Spotted Sandpiper 6 Willet 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Laughing Gull 82 Gull-billed Tern 2 Forster's Tern 9 Royal Tern 2 Rock Pigeon 2 White-winged Dove 65 Mourning Dove 11 hummingbird sp. 1 We saw this bird perched in a tree at a considerable (ca. 75 to 100 yards) distance. It appeared too large to be a Ruby-throated Hummingbird. Red-bellied Woodpecker 5 Downy Woodpecker 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Loggerhead Shrike 4 Blue Jay 21 Purple Martin 6 Barn Swallow 14 Carolina Chickadee 2 Carolina Wren 10 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 16 European Starling 11 Northern Cardinal 5 Great-tailed Grackle 14 Orchard Oriole 2 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