Another windy day at Laguna Atascosa. Again impressive numbers of
waterfowl. Highlights were stilts, avocets, and dowitchers. Couldn't
determine the leg color of the peeps.
Sprague's Pipit didn't disappoint. Took some work but it paid off.
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From: <ebird-checklist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:53 PM
Subject: eBird Report - Laguna Atascosa Birding Van Tour, Feb 21, 2016
To: dkelly163@xxxxxxxxx
Laguna Atascosa Birding Van Tour, Cameron, Texas, US
Feb 21, 2016 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
20.0 mile(s)
Comments: starting temp 68, high temp 78, cloudy with low light, windy;
numbers of water birds continues to be phenomenal
69 species
Snow Goose 900
American Wigeon 14
Mottled Duck 2
Blue-winged Teal 23
Northern Shoveler 25
Northern Pintail 25
Green-winged Teal 2
Redhead 10
Lesser Scaup 1
Bufflehead 4
Ruddy Duck 15
Northern Bobwhite 21
Pied-billed Grebe 55
Neotropic Cormorant 1
Double-crested Cormorant 41
American White Pelican 44
Great Blue Heron 7
Great Egret 15
Snowy Egret 24
Little Blue Heron 35
Tricolored Heron 31
Reddish Egret 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3
White Ibis 61
White-faced Ibis 47
Roseate Spoonbill 5
Turkey Vulture 6
White-tailed Kite 2
Northern Harrier 3
Harris's Hawk 4
White-tailed Hawk 5
American Coot 1500
Black-necked Stilt 35
American Avocet 10
Killdeer 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Long-billed Curlew 1
Long-billed Dowitcher 30
Laughing Gull 2
Ring-billed Gull 2
Caspian Tern 37
Forster's Tern 14
Mourning Dove 26
Greater Roadrunner 2
Belted Kingfisher 3
Green Kingfisher 2
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 2
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Crested Caracara 2
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Eastern Phoebe 4
Great Kiskadee 5
Loggerhead Shrike 3
White-eyed Vireo 6
Tree Swallow 1
Verdin 2
Bewick's Wren 1
Long-billed Thrasher 5
Northern Mockingbird 20
Sprague's Pipit 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 21
Savannah Sparrow 15
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 42
Eastern Meadowlark 26
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Donna Kelly
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