On a beautiful cloudless day 8 of us had a nice walk around the nature Center and had 68 species of birds, a squirrel and an Armadillo. I would like to thank Gene, Chrissy, Sue, Chuck, Jan, Lana, and Ray for all their help. I would remind everyone that starting next month for the summer we will start at 7 AM each third Thursday of the month. Chuck Davis will lead the count for us next month since I will be in Alaska. 68 species total 47 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis 2 Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula 2 Blue-winged Teal Anas discors 9 Neotropic Cormorant Phalacrocorax brasilianus 19 American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos 25 Brown Pelican Pelecanus occidentalis 1 Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis 5 Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias 7 Great Egret Ardea alba 30 Snowy Egret Egretta thula 9 Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea 10 Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor 1 Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis 1 Green Heron Butorides virescens 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea 29 White Ibis Eudocimus albus 9 Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja 1 Black Vulture Coragyps atratus 2 Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura 2 Osprey Pandion haliaetus 1 Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis 0 Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus 1 Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis 7 Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris 1 Sora Porzana carolina 7 Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus 4 Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus 6 Killdeer Charadrius vociferus 4 Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius 5 Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca 1 Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes 5 Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus 1 Dunlin Calidris alpina 6 Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla 7 White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla 3 Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri 1 Wilson's Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor 9 Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla 3 Least Tern Sternula antillarum 3 Black Tern Chlidonias niger 9 Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri 2 Black Skimmer Rynchops niger 14 White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica 8 Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus 1 Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee Contopus virens 1 Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus 2 Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus 5 Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata 16 Purple Martin Progne subis 1 Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor 7 Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica 3 Carolina Chickadee Poecile carolinensis 4 Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus 2 Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis 9 Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos 13 European Starling Sturnus vulgaris 1 Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis 8 Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis 13 Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus 7 Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus 4 Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater 1 American Goldfinch Spinus tristis 2 House Sparrow Passer domesticus David Hanson Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area Chambers Co Galveston Bay Area Master Naturalist TOS Member 281-303-0166 hm 281-813-2657 cell 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