Mitchell Lake, Bexar, US-TX Aug 17, 2014 7:30 AM - 11:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 5.0 mile(s) 71 species (+1 other taxa) Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 31 6 adults followed by two groups of "bumblebees"and one of middle-sized babies Blue-winged Teal 12 Least Grebe 3 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Neotropic Cormorant 12 Double-crested Cormorant 3 It is not unusual for some double -crested cormorants to be found at Mitchell in the summer. Yellow patch on face. Anhinga 1 seen by Helen rejzek Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 20 Snowy Egret 85 Little Blue Heron 4 Tricolored Heron 13 Cattle Egret 48 Green Heron 5 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 Roseate Spoonbill 1 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Common Gallinule 2 Black-necked Stilt 47 American Avocet 20 Killdeer 80 Spotted Sandpiper 5 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Willet 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Stilt Sandpiper 10 Baird's Sandpiper 2 Least Sandpiper 137 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 Western Sandpiper 3 Short-billed Dowitcher 2 any immature seen before labor day is a short-billed. Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Wilson's Phalarope 25 Common Ground-Dove 5 White-winged Dove 160 Mourning Dove 35 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 heard by helen Great Horned Owl 1 heard by Karen and Tim Common Nighthawk 1 Chimney Swift 3 Black-chinned Hummingbird 2 Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird 2 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2 Crested Caracara 3 Eastern Phoebe 2 Western Kingbird 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 8 Loggerhead Shrike 2 White-eyed Vireo 3 Bell's Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Seen by christian Purple Martin 5 Barn Swallow 19 Cliff Swallow 3 Verdin 4 Bewick's Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 Northern Mockingbird 6 European Starling 4 Yellow Warbler 3 seen by helen back of ernie's bridge Northern Cardinal 6 Painted Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird 70 Great-tailed Grackle 15 Brown-headed Cowbird 5 Orchard Oriole 1 House Finch 6 House Sparrow 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19496204 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.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