Good Afternoon Tex Birders... Another fine day of birding on the refuge with a van load of 9 enthusiastic folks.. A solid species count with the lingering of some migrant ducks and the count of of small passerines edging up a bit. All snow geese seems to have moved on but the distant calls of sandhill cranes winging their way northward could be heard. The big view of the day was reserved not so much for birds but for a monstrous alligator sunning on the banks of Laguna Atascosa. Good birding all! Cary Atwood & Leon Thurmon Birding Volunteers Laguna Atascosa NWR Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:35 PM Subject: eBird Trail Tracker Report - Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Mar 14, 2014 To: laguna.atascosa@xxxxxxxxx Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Cameron, US-TX Mar 14, 2014 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Protocol: eBird Trail Tracker Comments: West Lake Road..Laguna Atascosa 62 species Gadwall 40 American Wigeon 42 Blue-winged Teal 15 Northern Shoveler 230 Green-winged Teal 41 Redhead 8 Lesser Scaup 10 Bufflehead 8 Ruddy Duck 27 Pied-billed Grebe 4 Eared Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 8 Anhinga 1 American White Pelican 94 Great Blue Heron 3 Great Egret 11 Snowy Egret 1 Little Blue Heron 10 Tricolored Heron 1 White Ibis 53 Black Vulture 4 Turkey Vulture 12 Osprey 4 Northern Harrier 6 Harris's Hawk 5 White-tailed Hawk 5 Sora 1 American Coot 350 Sandhill Crane 2 Black-necked Stilt 52 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 5 Long-billed Curlew 27 Long-billed Dowitcher 150 Gull-billed Tern 2 Mourning Dove 15 White-tipped Dove 2 Greater Roadrunner 2 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 4 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3 Crested Caracara 2 American Kestrel 3 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Kiskadee 1 Loggerhead Shrike 2 White-eyed Vireo 3 Green Jay 1 Horned Lark 3 Tree Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 4 Verdin 1 Cactus Wren 2 Curve-billed Thrasher 1 Northern Mockingbird 14 Yellow-rumped Warbler 38 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Cassin's Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 13 Northern Cardinal 4 Red-winged Blackbird 66 Eastern Meadowlark 24 Great-tailed Grackle 15 -- www.friendsofsouthtexasrefuges.org 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