I had the most fun this morning on the bird tour around Laguna Atascosa
Lake. I picked up a couple life birds: Ringed Kingfisher and Greater
White-Fronted Goose. Also fun to see were the Green Kingfisher,
White-Crowned Sparrows and Wood Storks.
Laguna Atascosa NWR (LTC 024), Cameron, Texas, US
Dec 4, 2015 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
20.0 mile(s)
Comments: Visitor Center to Lakeside Dr., to County Trail, around
Laguna Atascosa Lake Dam #1, to Rd 106, to Visitor Center.
63 species
Greater White-fronted Goose 150
Snow Goose 700
American Wigeon 1
Blue-winged Teal 92
Northern Shoveler 1
Northern Pintail 5
Bufflehead 1
Ruddy Duck 20
Pied-billed Grebe 9
Wood Stork 6 consistently seen in and around Laguna Atascosa Lake
Double-crested Cormorant 8
Anhinga 1
American White Pelican 30
Great Blue Heron 7
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 25
Little Blue Heron 5
Tricolored Heron 9
Reddish Egret 1
White Ibis 44
Roseate Spoonbill 6
Black Vulture 3
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 6
Northern Harrier 3
Harris's Hawk 3
White-tailed Hawk 1
Clapper Rail 1
Common Gallinule 2
American Coot 4000
Sandhill Crane 30
Black-necked Stilt 3
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Long-billed Curlew 10
Laughing Gull 1
Black Skimmer 3
Mourning Dove 20
Greater Roadrunner 3
Ringed Kingfisher 2
Belted Kingfisher 3
Green Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 5
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Crested Caracara 9
American Kestrel 3
Eastern Phoebe 2
Great Kiskadee 3
Couch's Kingbird 2
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 1
Loggerhead Shrike 3
Horned Lark 5
Long-billed Thrasher 2
Northern Mockingbird 50
Orange-crowned Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
White-crowned Sparrow 4
Savannah Sparrow 13
Northern Cardinal 2
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 9
Eastern Meadowlark 11
Great-tailed Grackle 3
Laguna Atascosa NWR (Los Fresnos, TX) also has habitat tours every day at
9am and at 1pm that goes around Bayside Drive. Today the Aplomado Falcon
was seen on the Habitat Tour. For more information visit:
http://www.fws.gov/refuge/laguna_atascosa/
Jo
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208.521.4367
Idaho Falls, ID
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