Eight birders showed up to yesterday morning to help conduct the October bird count for the Baytown Nature Center. as seen below we had 66 species with a total of 1325 birds. See the list below David Hanson Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area Baytown Nature Center (UTC 039), Harris County, Texas, US ( _Map_ (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=29.7560322,-95.0492263&ll=29.7560322,-95. 0492263) ) Date and Effort Thursday Oct 18, 2012 8:00 AM Protocol:Traveling Party Size: 8 Duration: 5 hour(s) Distance: 4.3 mile(s) Comments: Bird Count in conjunction with Houston Audubon Society 66 species total 13 Mottled Ducks 57 Greater White-fronted Goose 1 Wood Duck (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052006','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 1 Pied-billed Grebe 14 Neotropic Cormorant (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052043','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 18 Anhinga 18 American White Pelican 24 Brown Pelican (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052031','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 12 Great Blue Heron 21 Great Egret 20 Snowy Egret (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052048','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 3 Little Blue Heron (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052012','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 5 Tricolored Heron 4 Black-crowned Night-Heron (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052009','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 3 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 30 White Ibis 8 Roseate Spoonbill 3 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052041','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 4 Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052052','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 1 Cooper's Hawk 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 30 Killdeer (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052013','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 3 American Avocet 2 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Western Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 1 Wilson's Snipe 420 Laughing Gull I have lived here all my life in the neighborhood right next to the Nature Center and have never seen so many Laughing Gulls in and around this bay system. There was an active dredge with the floating line running along the shore that gave the Gulls a nice place to sit. 1 Forster's Tern 8 Royal Tern (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052062','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 6 Rock Pigeon 64 White-winged Dove 70 Mourning Dove 1 Inca Dove 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 5 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 6 Belted Kingfisher 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 2 American Kestrel 4 Eastern Phoebe 10 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 9 Loggerhead Shrike 19 Blue Jay 30 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 8 Barn Swallow 3 Carolina Chickadee 4 House Wren 6 Carolina Wren 42 Northern Mockingbird 2 Brown Thrasher 135 European Starling 2 Northern Parula 3 Savannah Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 14 Northern Cardinal 82 Red-winged Blackbird 9 Eastern Meadowlark 3 Common Grackle 15 Great-tailed Grackl (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052044','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 3 Brown-headed Cowbird (javascript:deleteObsWithIDNew('OBS167052019','Are you sure you want to delete these observations?\nOnce they are deleted they can never be restored.');) 20 House Sparrow *