A fine morning at Laguna Atascosa. It's always a pleasure having visitors that get really excited over our Texas birds, even simple Bobwhite and Roadrunner. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was the bird of the day with 25 feasting on mosquitoes over the prairie. Chimney Swift and swallows were overhead all morning. Tours Thursday - Monday 8:30 - 12, Friday at 1 PM alternating between Bahia Grande and Laguna Atascosa. Tours only continue through the end of March and are beginning to fill up so call for reservations. 956-748-3607 X111. In addition, another visitor had a fine afternoon at Alligator Pond reporting Summer Tanager, Yellow-throated Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo, and Prothonotary Warbler. Groove-billed Ani continue along the entrance road between the refuge sign and the first speed bump. We also have a new "litter" of 9 baby alligators behind the Visitors Center. Tours Thursday - Monday 8:30 - 12, Friday at 1 PM alternating between Bahia Grande and Laguna Atascosa. Tours only continue through the end of March and are beginning to fill up so call for reservations. 956-748-3607 X111. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <ebird-checklist@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:45 PM Subject: eBird Trail Tracker Report - Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Mar 22, 2015 To: dkelly163@xxxxxxxxx Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Cameron, US-TX Mar 22, 2015 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM Protocol: eBird Trail Tracker 52 species Blue-winged Teal 5 Bufflehead 3 Ruddy Duck 12 Northern Bobwhite 33 Pied-billed Grebe 39 Neotropic Cormorant 1 Double-crested Cormorant 12 American Bittern 1 Great Egret 4 Snowy Egret 1 Little Blue Heron 3 Tricolored Heron 2 Green Heron 7 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3 White Ibis 33 White-faced Ibis 1 Turkey Vulture 16 Osprey 2 Cooper's Hawk 2 Harris's Hawk 2 White-tailed Hawk 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Sora 5 Common Gallinule 1 American Coot 500 Forster's Tern 5 Common Ground-Dove 6 Mourning Dove 28 Greater Roadrunner 4 Chimney Swift 15 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2 Crested Caracara 2 American Kestrel 2 Great Kiskadee 2 Couch's Kingbird 3 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 25 White-eyed Vireo 3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 5 Tree Swallow 10 Barn Swallow 6 Bewick's Wren 4 Cactus Wren 1 Long-billed Thrasher 3 Northern Mockingbird 24 Olive Sparrow 6 Vesper Sparrow 3 Savannah Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 4 Red-winged Blackbird 26 Eastern Meadowlark 38 Great-tailed Grackle 4 -- Donna Kelly 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