I walked the North Jetty this evening the light is wonderful late in the day and even though this is the when we have the fewest birds on Bolivar Flats there was quite a bit to look at. Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary--17th Str. jetty, Galveston, US-TX Jun 12, 2014 6:15 PM - 7:50 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.25 mile(s) Comments: Walked the North Jetty tide was fairly low. 35 species (+2 other taxa) Neotropic Cormorant 9 American White Pelican 1 Brown Pelican 103 Great Blue Heron 7 Great Egret 16 Snowy Egret 31 Little Blue Heron 1 Tricolored Heron 1 Reddish Egret 17 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 White Ibis 1 Roseate Spoonbill 19 Black-necked Stilt 2 American Avocet 83 American Oystercatcher 2 Black-bellied Plover 18 Wilson's Plover 1 Semipalmated Plover 45 Willet 25 Marbled Godwit 5 Western Sandpiper 5 peep sp. 7 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Laughing Gull 115 Least Tern 2 Black Tern 87 Forster's Tern 2 Royal Tern 4 Sandwich Tern 1 tern sp. 40 Black Skimmer 12 Mourning Dove 1 Common Nighthawk 1 Barn Swallow 2 European Starling 5 Red-winged Blackbird 23 Great-tailed Grackle 14 Winnie Burkett Friendswood & the Bolivar Peninsula 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