I have enjoyed reading your reports. Thanks for taking the time and effort. Have a great summer. Fred Collins At home on the Prairie in Waller, Texas Sent from my iPhone On Mar 30, 2015, at 4:16 PM, Donna Kelly <dkelly163@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last Birding Van Tour of the 2015 season to Bahia Grande and a beautiful > day to finish off the season. > Shorebirds and peeps still covered the mudflats, most really far away but a > few were close enough to ID as Western. We also had 2 Pectoral Sandpipers > close by. A surprise was a small flock of Sanderlings. > > No warblers at all, but nice looks at Cassin's, Grasshopper, and Lincoln > Sparrow. Still quite a few Savannah, but numbers are down. > > So long and thanks to all our visitors who birded with us the last 3 > months. The refuge will still be open all summer so come on out and enjoy > our unique habitat. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: <ebird-checklist@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:07 PM > Subject: eBird Report - Laguna Atascosa NWR--Bahia Grande Unit, Mar 30, 2015 > To: dkelly163@xxxxxxxxx > > > Laguna Atascosa NWR--Bahia Grande Unit, Cameron, US-TX > Mar 30, 2015 8:45 AM - 12:15 PM > Protocol: Traveling > 8.0 mile(s) > Comments: Last Birding Tour of the season > 45 species (+2 other taxa) > > Gadwall 2 > Northern Shoveler 2 > Northern Bobwhite 18 > Neotropic Cormorant 1 > Double-crested Cormorant 5 > American White Pelican 78 > Great Blue Heron 6 > Great Egret 13 > Snowy Egret 6 > Tricolored Heron 1 > Reddish Egret 1 > White Ibis 3 > Turkey Vulture 2 > Osprey 1 > White-tailed Kite 1 > Northern Harrier 2 > Harris's Hawk 1 > Swainson's Hawk 1 > American Coot 51 > Black-bellied Plover 1 > Spotted Sandpiper 1 > Greater Yellowlegs 3 > Willet 3 > Long-billed Curlew 5 > Sanderling 25 > Pectoral Sandpiper 2 > Western Sandpiper 10 > peep sp. 2000 > shorebird sp. 2000 > Laughing Gull 4 > Ring-billed Gull 1 > Herring Gull 3 > Gull-billed Tern 5 > Caspian Tern 1 > Forster's Tern 2 > Loggerhead Shrike 2 > White-eyed Vireo 1 > Horned Lark 22 > Curve-billed Thrasher 3 > Northern Mockingbird 9 > Cassin's Sparrow 4 > Savannah Sparrow 18 > Grasshopper Sparrow 1 > Lincoln's Sparrow 1 > Red-winged Blackbird 65 > Eastern Meadowlark 39 > Brown-headed Cowbird 5 > > View this checklist online at > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S22598311 > > This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) > > > > -- > Donna and Alvin Kelly RV Volunteers > Home is where you park it! > Currently Laguna Atascosa NWR (until tomorrow) > > > 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 > > > ____________________________________________________________ > This 1 exercise AGES you faster? > Avoid this "healthy" exercise to look & feel 5-10 years YOUNGER > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/5519eca37a046ca1690dmp10vuc > 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