[texbirds] Notes from High Island 2/22/2013

From: Winnie <wbburkett@xxxxxxx>
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:20:43 -0500 (EST)
It was a nice evening to watch waders come into the Rookery to spend the night. 
Many Great Egrets have breeding plumage and are displaying there is one nest 
with eggs. Snow geese were going over but there was no consensious on direction.

There are a lot of White-crowned Sparrows at High Island and few White-throats 
this was true last year too. It used to be that White-throats were the most 
common. I wonder what is happening.

There was a female Painted Bunting hanging out with one of the  flocks of 
sparrows. 



Smith Oaks, Galveston, US-TX
Feb 22, 2013 4:15 PM - 6:21 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments:     Counting birds coming into the Rookery in Claybottom Pond. Also 
counted what flew over.
32 species (+3 other taxa)

Snow Goose  653     over
Ross's Goose  3     over
Gadwall  2
Blue-winged Teal  28
Neotropic Cormorant  1034     in colony night roost and those getting ready to 
breed
Great Egret  321     Pairs displaying and one nest
Snowy Egret  224     night roost
Little Blue Heron  31     adult 30 immature 1
Tricolored Heron  11
Black-crowned Night-Heron  71     Adult 58 immature 13
White Ibis  5     adult 1 immatur 4
Roseate Spoonbill  20     all left before sunset
Black Vulture  9
Turkey Vulture  16
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Common Gallinule  11
American Coot  27
shorebird sp.  20     may have been dunlin
Laughing Gull  1
Mourning Dove  9
Great Horned Owl  2
Belted Kingfisher  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Gray Catbird  1
Brown Thrasher  2
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  5
sparrow sp.  2
Northern Cardinal  3
Red-winged Blackbird  51
grackle sp.  391     going to roost in mixed flocks
Brown-headed Cowbird  7





Winnie Burkett
Friendswood & the Bolivar Peninsula

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[texbirds] Notes from High Island 2/22/2013

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