Bahia Grande Unit Birding Tour on Saturday started cold but calm. As soon as the sun broke though the clouds birds became active and vocal. Cactus Wren and Curve-billed Thrasher pairing up looking for nesting sites. We reached 43 species today. Tours are filling up so call for reservations early. Tours Thursday through Monday leaving at 8:30 AM. Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Cameron, US-TX Jan 25, 2014 12:00 AM - 3:00 AM Protocol: eBird Trail Tracker Comments: Bahia Grande Unit additional tern species - 13 42 species Mottled Duck 2 Northern Pintail 13 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Double-crested Cormorant 43 American White Pelican 110 Brown Pelican 9 Great Blue Heron 17 Great Egret 3 Reddish Egret 2 Turkey Vulture 2 Osprey 1 Northern Harrier 4 Harris's Hawk 7 White-tailed Hawk 1 Sandhill Crane 2 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Long-billed Curlew 3 Least Sandpiper 55 Ring-billed Gull 3 Caspian Tern 5 Common Ground-Dove 7 Crested Caracara 13 American Kestrel 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Loggerhead Shrike 1 Chihuahuan Raven 2 Horned Lark 50 Bewick's Wren 4 Cactus Wren 4 Curve-billed Thrasher 6 Northern Mockingbird 20 Sprague's Pipit 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 6 Cassin's Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 12 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 1 Eastern Meadowlark 15 Great-tailed Grackle 75 -- Donna And Alvin Kelly Volunteers Laguna Atascosa NWR UWFWS 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