Hunting season ended yesterday so we had our first of season Birding Van Tour on the Laguna Atascosa Unit today. There is so much water on the refuge and the birds are loving it. Water fowl numbers can't begin to reflect the total numbers of ducks and coots on the lake. We only counted the ones closest to shore to be ID'd. We will be alternating tours now between Laguna Atascosa and Bahia Grande. Join us for a birding tour Thursday-Monday mornings, with an added tour on Friday afternoon. Call ahead for reservations. 956-748-3608 ext, 111 Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Cameron, US-TX Jan 12, 2015 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM Protocol: eBird Trail Tracker 62 species Gadwall 3 Blue-winged Teal 17 Redhead 25 Ring-necked Duck 6 Lesser Scaup 99 Bufflehead 3 Ruddy Duck 207 Northern Bobwhite 32 Eared Grebe 1 American White Pelican 33 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 7 Snowy Egret 5 Little Blue Heron 3 Tricolored Heron 7 Reddish Egret 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron 4 White Ibis 8 Roseate Spoonbill 1 Turkey Vulture 4 Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Harris's Hawk 3 White-tailed Hawk 2 American Coot 450 Sandhill Crane 1 Long-billed Curlew 2 Caspian Tern 1 Forster's Tern 3 Common Ground-Dove 1 Mourning Dove 15 Greater Roadrunner 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3 Crested Caracara 3 American Kestrel 3 Eastern Phoebe 2 Vermilion Flycatcher 1 Great Kiskadee 5 Couch's Kingbird 12 Loggerhead Shrike 2 White-eyed Vireo 12 Green Jay 4 Tree Swallow 5 Verdin 2 House Wren 1 Bewick's Wren 1 Cactus Wren 1 Long-billed Thrasher 2 Northern Mockingbird 39 European Starling 8 Common Yellowthroat 6 Yellow-rumped Warbler 22 Cassin's Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 3 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 5 Red-winged Blackbird 106 Eastern Meadowlark 18 Great-tailed Grackle 38 -- Donna and Alvin Kelly, Resident 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