Our tour around Laguna Atascosa was one of pleasant temps and a strong enough breeze to keep the mosquitos at bay. Waders and ducks are on the increase and many flowers are beginning to bloom, too! Call and make a reservation for a birding tour Thursdays through Mondays at *your* National Wildlife Refuge...they continue to fill up quickly. Good birding to all, Cary Atwood & Leon Thurmon Volunteers Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Cameron, US-TX Feb 21, 2014 8:30am---noon Protocol: eBird Trail Tracker Comments: Lakeside Birding Tour - laguna atascosa NWR 57 species Gadwall 55 American Wigeon 25 Mottled Duck 2 Blue-winged Teal 11 Northern Shoveler 250 Northern Pintail 85 Green-winged Teal 80 Redhead 12 Lesser Scaup 10 Bufflehead 45 Ruddy Duck 25 Pied-billed Grebe 10 Double-crested Cormorant 13 American White Pelican 10 Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 10 Snowy Egret 1 Reddish Egret 5 White Ibis 40 White-faced Ibis 10 Black Vulture 4 Turkey Vulture 15 Osprey 2 Northern Harrier 7 Harris's Hawk 5 White-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 350 Sandhill Crane 2 Black-necked Stilt 17 American Avocet 16 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Long-billed Curlew 35 Long-billed Dowitcher 45 Forster's Tern 4 Mourning Dove 15 Common Ground-Dove 2 White-tipped Dove 2 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 4 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1 Crested Caracara 5 American Kestrel 3 Eastern Phoebe 2 Great Kiskadee 2 Loggerhead Shrike 2 White-eyed Vireo 2 Horned Lark 3 Barn Swallow 1 Cactus Wren 1 Long-billed Thrasher 1 Northern Mockingbird 25 Yellow-rumped Warbler 21 Cassin's Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 20 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 30 Eastern Meadowlark 10 Great-tailed Grackle 6 -- 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