TexBirders, Our shorebird survey on Follet's Island yesterday turned up our first Piping Plover of "fall" and a Lesser Black-backed Gull. Also very high numbers of Willets and a few Semipalmated Sandpipers. Sanderlings and Ruddy Turnstones are beginning to return as well. The complete list from e-bird is below. Sue Susan A. Heath, PhD Gulf Coast Bird Observatory 103 Hwy 332 West Lake Jackson, TX 77566 979-480-0999 www.gcbo.org -----Original Message----- From: do-not-reply@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:do-not-reply@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:34 AM To: sheath@xxxxxxxx Subject: eBird Report - Follett's Shorebird Survey Start, Jul 16, 2013 Follett's Shorebird Survey Start, Brazoria, US-TX Jul 16, 2013 5:21 PM - 6:10 PM Protocol: Texas Shorebird Survey 1.0 mile(s) 22 species Brown Pelican 8 Great Blue Heron 1 Black-bellied Plover 3 Snowy Plover 1 Wilson's Plover 3 Piping Plover 1 Willet 42 Ruddy Turnstone 6 Sanderling 26 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 Laughing Gull 91 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Least Tern 21 Gull-billed Tern 1 Caspian Tern 8 Black Tern 1 Forster's Tern 1 Royal Tern 4 Sandwich Tern 1 Black Skimmer 2 Mourning Dove 1 Great-tailed Grackle 10 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14662712 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/tx) 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