[texbirds] Re: Notes from High Island
- From: Winnie <wbburkett@xxxxxxx>
- To: dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 12:06:40 -0400 (EDT)
Before Ike they were almost always there a couple of pairs even nested. Ike
changed things.
Winnie Burkett
Friendswood & the Bolivar Peninsula
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Smith <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wbburkett <wbburkett@xxxxxxx>
Cc: texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Aug 2, 2013 10:56 am
Subject: Re: [texbirds] Notes from High Island
Interesting that Anhingas are not being seen at High Island given the large
flocks of soaring Anhingas we often see at the Smith Point Hawk Watch. You
would
think there would at least be passers by.
Dan Smith
dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
512-451-2632
http://www.wordsmithofaustin.com
On Aug 2, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Winnie <wbburkett@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I counted birds coming in to the Rookery to roost last night it was
interesting as usual. Most birds are close to done bringing up their chicks,
Black Terns were feeding in the pond and I saw the first Anhinga I have seen on
High Island since Ike.
>
> Migrants are trickling through with a waterthrush and Black and White Warbler
seen in the woods and a Swainson's Hawk flying over Boy Scout Woods.
>
> Smith Oaks, Galveston, US-TX
> Aug 1, 2013 6:10 PM - 8:19 PM
> Protocol: Stationary
> Comments: Watching water birds come in to roost. Roosting birds and
fly-bys
> were counted
> 27 species
>
> Wood Stork 1
> Neotropic Cormorant 411
> Anhinga 1
> Great Egret 155 birds were coming in to a night roost
> Snowy Egret 114 birds were coming in to a night roost
> Little Blue Heron 120 birds were coming in to a night roost
> Tricolored Heron 69
> Cattle Egret 68
> Green Heron 2
> White Ibis 15
> Roseate Spoonbill 64
> Black Vulture 5
> Purple Gallinule 1
> Common Gallinule 6
> Greater Yellowlegs 1
> Laughing Gull 34
> Black Tern 11
> Mourning Dove 8
> Common Nighthawk 1
> Chimney Swift 1
> Crested Caracara 1
> Eastern Kingbird 1
> Blue Jay 2
> Barn Swallow 1
> Northern Cardinal 1
> Great-tailed Grackle 6
> Orchard Oriole 7
>
>
>
>
> Winnie Burkett
> Friendswood & the Bolivar Peninsula
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