Another great day on the Laguna Atascosa; we ended up with 67 species, although we missed many of the smaller birds we normally see. Lots of waterfowl and new shorebirds moving in. Spring is in the air. Tours are beginning to fill up so call for reservations. 956-748-3707 X111. Tours Thursday - Monday 8:30 - 12, Friday at 1 PM alternating between Bahia Grande and Laguna Atascosa. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <ebird-checklist@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 3:55 PM Subject: eBird Report - Laguna Atascosa Birding Van Tour, Feb 15, 2015 To: dkelly163@xxxxxxxxx Laguna Atascosa Birding Van Tour, Cameron, US-TX Feb 15, 2015 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 15.0 mile(s) Comments: West Lake Road to Coyote Loop and back 67 species Gadwall 4 American Wigeon 20 Blue-winged Teal 25 Northern Shoveler 55 Northern Pintail 15 Lesser Scaup 13 Bufflehead 2 Ruddy Duck 175 Northern Bobwhite 24 Wild Turkey 1 Pied-billed Grebe 32 Neotropic Cormorant 2 Double-crested Cormorant 5 American White Pelican 45 American Bittern 2 Great Blue Heron 3 Great Egret 25 Little Blue Heron 2 Tricolored Heron 2 Reddish Egret 2 White Ibis 7 White-faced Ibis 2 Roseate Spoonbill 7 Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 8 Osprey 3 Northern Harrier 3 Harris's Hawk 1 White-tailed Hawk 2 Sora 2 American Coot 500 Black-necked Stilt 4 Killdeer 3 Greater Yellowlegs 13 Long-billed Curlew 12 Long-billed Dowitcher 125 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 1 Forster's Tern 3 Eurasian Collared-Dove 5 Common Ground-Dove 2 Greater Roadrunner 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1 Crested Caracara 4 American Kestrel 2 Peregrine Falcon 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Vermilion Flycatcher 1 Great Kiskadee 2 Couch's Kingbird 10 White-eyed Vireo 6 Green Jay 3 Bewick's Wren 2 Cactus Wren 1 Long-billed Thrasher 2 Northern Mockingbird 20 Common Yellowthroat 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Savannah Sparrow 5 Northern Cardinal 1 Pyrrhuloxia 1 Red-winged Blackbird 87 Eastern Meadowlark 16 Great-tailed Grackle 175 Brown-headed Cowbird 22 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S21868379 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/tx) -- Donna and Alvin Kelly, RV Volunteers Home is where you park it! Currently Laguna Atascosa NWR 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