[texbirds] Morning Bird Walk - Sugar Land Riverpark Brazos Trail

From: Mark Scheuerman <mark.scheuerman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: TexBirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:21:41 -0600
Hi Texbirders,
I had been in The Valley for the past week helping at the exceptional Rio
Grande Valley Birding Festival and had to take a bird walk this morning to
check on the nuthatches....At least 4 are still here as well as a great
list of birds. I even got a new-for-location bird - Pied-billed Grebe. All
the birds seemed really responsive to owl calls/pishing this chilly
morning. See list below.
Cheers,
Mark Scheuerman
Sugar Land, TX

Riverpark Brazos Trail (Sugar Land), Fort Bend, US-TX
Nov 14, 2012 8:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Protocol: Area
200.0 ac
Comments:     Cool, overcast, N wind. 56-60 F. Red-breasted Nuthatches, GC
Kininglets, FOS Winter Wren, New for Location Pied-billed Grebe, big
movement of robins and RCK's. Walked part of newer trails at W. RiverPark
as well.
59 species (+2 other taxa)

Pied-billed Grebe  1     On river by sandbar. First ever for location...new
yard bird.
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  1
Snowy Egret  1
White Ibis  1
Black Vulture  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Killdeer  4
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Least Sandpiper  4
Ring-billed Gull  1
Rock Pigeon  10
White-winged Dove  60
Mourning Dove  10
Black-chinned Hummingbird  1     adult male continues at feeders
Ruby-throated/Black-chinned Hummingbird  1     female ruby-throated?
Rufous Hummingbird  4     5 or more rufous hummers being seen daily at
feeders.
Selasphorus sp.  1     Possible broad-tailed
Belted Kingfisher  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  10
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  2
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4
Pileated Woodpecker  2
Eastern Phoebe  8
Loggerhead Shrike  1
Blue Jay  6
American Crow  4
Carolina Chickadee  25
Tufted Titmouse  12
Red-breasted Nuthatch  4     Yea, continuing birds.
House Wren  6
Winter Wren  1     FOS
Carolina Wren  15
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  3
Golden-crowned Kinglet  2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  35     WOW, big movement of these guys with this cold
front.
Eastern Bluebird  2
Hermit Thrush  3
American Robin  70
Northern Mockingbird  4
European Starling  2
American Pipit  1
Orange-crowned Warbler  8
Pine Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  6
Wilson's Warbler  7     All seen were males.
Chipping Sparrow  1
Lincoln's Sparrow  4
Swamp Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  20
Northern Cardinal  30
Red-winged Blackbird  10
Common Grackle  35
Great-tailed Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  15
Pine Siskin  1     Heard
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  1
Nutmeg Mannikin  20     2 large groups; 1 on sandbar river's edge & 1 along
power line cut. Lots of immature birds.

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