After spending the weekend in the Davis Mountains, Veena Mohan and I stopped by Lake Balmorhea (Reeves Co.) late morning on 9/3/13. Our list of birds is included below. Also, just outside of the town of Balmorhea, we had a flock of 52 White-faced Ibis feeding in a field. Mallard 4 Blue-winged Teal 48 Northern Shoveler 21 Green-winged Teal 6 Ruddy Duck 1 Western Grebe 9 Clark's Grebe 126 Double-crested Cormorant 4 Great Blue Heron 5 Great Egret 4 Snowy Egret 4 Tricolored Heron 1 Green Heron 2 White-faced Ibis 1 Turkey Vulture 33 American Coot 1 Killdeer 5 Spotted Sandpiper 8 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 6 Long-billed Curlew 21 Marbled Godwit 1 Wilson's Phalarope 7 Black Tern 4 Mourning Dove 5 Greater Roadrunner 2 Empidonax sp. 1 Western Kingbird 3 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 1 Loggerhead Shrike 1 Barn Swallow 19 Verdin 2 Pyrrhuloxia 2 Red-winged Blackbird 32 Eastern/Western Meadowlark 1 Great-tailed Grackle 13 Bullock's Oriole 1 House Finch 1 House Sparrow 12 Richard Kostecke, Ph.D. The Nature Conservancy 318 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas 78701 Email: rkost73@xxxxxxxxx or rkostecke@xxxxxxx 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