Four intrepid birders joined us for a wet, blustery, and cold day at Bahia Grande. Despite the challenges we snagged two life birds and the targets for the day in Cassin's Sparrow and Aplomado Falcon. Male and Female Falcon hunkered down out of the gale in the usual brush near the Tower Gate. Call for information and tour reservations. 956-748-3607x119 Observer: dkelly163 2014-03-03 08:30 Laguna Atascosa NWR--Bahia Grande Unit Protocol: Traveling 15 Miles 150 Minutes Observers: 6 All birds reported? Yes 2 Mottled Duck 6 Lesser Scaup 8 Northern Bobwhite 41 American White Pelican 7 Brown Pelican 9 Great Blue Heron 1 Little Blue Heron 4 Reddish Egret 2 Turkey Vulture 4 Osprey 3 Northern Harrier 1 Harris's Hawk 6 White-tailed Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Willet (Western) 1000+ peep sp. clouds of peeps darkened the mudflat at laguna larga, photos taken to little avail for ID 3 Wilson's Snipe 25 Laughing Gull 9 Ring-billed Gull 3 Forster's Tern 1 American Kestrel 2 Aplomado Falcon 1 Loggerhead Shrike 24 Horned Lark 2 Curve-billed Thrasher 2 Northern Mockingbird 4 Cassin's Sparrow 4 Savannah Sparrow 2 Red-winged Blackbird 18 Eastern Meadowlark This report was created and sent using BirdsEye BirdLog (http://<http://birdseyebirding.com/> birdseyebirding.com/ <http://birdseyebirding.com/>) -- Donna and Alvin Kelly Volunteer Birding Tour Leaders Home is where you park it! 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