How lucky were all of us that were at High Island today, I say very lucky.
The mosquitos were behaving and the birds were accommodating.
While we were leaving Hook Woods, someone told us there was a Termite Swarm
over at Smith Oaks and we jumped in the car. We arrived to see the last few
birds snap up the stragglers from the swarm. Everyone was full of smiles
and called it a mini Fall-out. What a wonderful experience those lucky
birders had. Wish we had seen it.
Later on that evening we stood with 20 + and watched a beautiful male
Cerulean work an edge of Yaupons coming into view every few seconds for I
think over 20 minutes. Wow, and thank you to this darling little blue
bird, is all I can say about that. One large Pecan tree in the Mexico Road
parking lot had a group of us entertained with three Blackburnians, two
Yellow-throated, a Black-throated Green, a Black-and-white Warblers, an
American Redstart, and a Magnolia, along with several, several, Scarlet
Tanagers, which bird should we look at...
Getting back to what we saw at Hook Woods. At the first drip a group of us
watched five species of Warblers arrive in the course of a few minutes, a
Kentucky, a Hooded, an American Redstart, A Yellow, a Worm-eating, and a
Black-and-white!
We ended the day with 16 species of Warblers with several missing that
others had. In the wet grass in the yards across from the entrance to Hook
Woods were both Water Thrush, and two male Cape May Warblers. We missed
the Cape May by minutes and there were other species found around High
Island that we also missed - Blackpoll, Bay-breasted, Golden-winged,
Blue-winged, Ovenbird, Yellow-breasted Chat, and Prothonotary.
We are happy with the 16 species we had. American Redstart, Black-and-white,
Blackburnian, Black-throated Green, Cerulean, Chestnut-sided, Hooded,
Kentucky, Louisiana Waterthrush, Magnolia, Northern Parula, Northern
Waterthrush, Tennessee, Worm-eating, Yellow, and Yellow-throated.
With the winds swinging back out of the South this evening I think that
tomorrow evening and Monday morning should hold lots of birds finally able
to head back out across the Gulf. It seemed that most days this past week
there were large angry storms that headed out over the Gulf accompanied by
winds out of the North. I wonder if the birds sense that the awful storms
will not be a factor in their epic journey heading back to Us. We wish them
safe journeys as they lift of each evening.
Keith and Kathie Holder
Huffman
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