4 People participated in the first monthly bird count today 59 species were seen with a total of 687 birds. Protocol was walking and driving Distance was 4.3 miles weather was cool, clear and calm winds 42 Blue-winged Teal 1 Pied-billed Grebe 22 Neotropic Cormorant 2 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Anhinga 64 Brown Pelican 8 Great Blue Heron 17 Great Egret 17 Snowy Egret 8 Little Blue Heron 6 Tricolored Heron 2 Green Heron 4 Black-crowned Night-Heron 10 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 Roseate Spoonbill 1 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 4 Osprey 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 20 Killdeer 5 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Least Sandpiper 37 Laughing Gull 9 Forster's Tern 22 Royal Tern 4 Eurasian Collared-Dove 59 White-winged Dove 56 Mourning Dove 14 Chimney Swift 27 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 10 Belted Kingfisher 8 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 Eastern Kingbird 3 Loggerhead Shrike 1 White-eyed Vireo 27 Blue Jay 2 Carolina Chickadee 5 Carolina Wren 14 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Gray Catbird 25 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 58 European Starling 2 Common Yellowthroat 1 Wilson's Warbler 5 Yellow-breasted Chat 11 Northern Cardinal 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Dickcissel 6 Red-winged Blackbird 11 Great-tailed Grackle 1 Baltimore Oriole 15 House Sparrow 687 David Hanson Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area