The Brown Booby is still hanging around the fourth high line tower out from
the end of San Jacinto point. The previously reported Groove-billed Ani
was down the road to Wooster Point. We also saw two other species we do not
see often at the nature center. Eastern Meadowlark and a Dark Eyed Junco.
65 species total 35 Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis 2 Hooded
Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus 14 Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps 1
Eared Grebe Podiceps nigricollis 1 Brown Booby Sula leucogaster 18 Neotropic
Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus 3 Double-crested Cormorant
Phalacrocorax auritus 85 American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos 9
Brown
Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis 6 Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias 4 Great
Egret Ardea alba 3 Snowy Egret Egretta thula 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron
Nycticorax nycticorax 1 Black Vulture Coragyps atratus 2 Turkey Vulture
Cathartes aura 3 Osprey Pandion haliaetus 1 Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus
1
Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii 1 Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus 1
Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus 3 Clapper Rail Rallus crepitans 1
Virginia Rail Rallus limicola 4 Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius 2 Willet
(Western) Tringa semipalmata inornata 75 Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
2 Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis 3 Herring Gull Larus argentatus 1
Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus 5 White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica 5
Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura 1 Groove-billed Ani Crotophaga sulcirostris 3
Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes
carolinus 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius 1 Northern Flicker
Colaptes auratus 1 American Kestrel Falco sparverius 5 Eastern Phoebe
Sayornis
phoebe 4 Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus 7 Blue Jay Cyanocitta
cristata 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis 25 Tree
Swallow Tachycineta bicolor 1 Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis 1
House Wren Troglodytes aedon 3 Sedge Wren Cistothorus platensis 4 Marsh Wren
Cistothorus palustris 1 Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus 2 Blue-gray
Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula
1 Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis 5 American Robin Turdus migratorius 18
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos 2 Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata 1 Seaside Sparrow Ammodramus
maritimus
1 Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis 5 White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia
albicollis 1 Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii 1 Swamp Sparrow Melospiza
georgiana 5 Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis 9 Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceus 4 Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella magna 15 Common
Grackle Quiscalus quiscula 8 Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus 35
Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater 10 American Goldfinch Spinus tristis 7
House
Sparrow Passer domesticus
David Hanson
Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area
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Texas Master Naturalist
FeatherFest 2016 Birding Program Leader
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