[texbirds] Notes from High Island 3/7/2113
- From: Winnie <wbburkett@xxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:27:00 -0500 (EST)
Things are getting busy in the High Island Rookery. It was fun watching the
activity last night.
Smith Oaks, Galveston, US-TX
Mar 7, 2013 4:50 PM - 6:30 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments: Conducting count of birds coming into roost at Smith Oaks
Rookery.
Also counted other birds that flew over or called.
26 species (+3 other taxa)
Gadwall 11
Blue-winged Teal 41
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Neotropic Cormorant 1108 Birds getting ready to breed and coming to roost
Great Egret 435 33 nests with adults sitting on them, Birds getting ready
to breed and coming to roost
Snowy Egret 302 Birds getting ready to breed and coming to roost
Little Blue Heron 30 adult 28 imm 2
Tricolored Heron 21
Black-crowned Night-Heron 53
White Ibis 7 immatures over
ibis sp. 1 dark ibis
Roseate Spoonbill 68
Black Vulture 14
Turkey Vulture 11
Cooper's Hawk 1 over
Red-tailed Hawk 2 over
Common Gallinule 8
American Coot 32
Killdeer 1
Black-necked Stilt 1
peep sp. 11
Mourning Dove 9
Belted Kingfisher 1
Blue Jay 2
Gray Catbird 2
Brown Thrasher 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5
Red-winged Blackbird 2
grackle sp. 11
Winnie Burkett
Friendswood & the Bolivar Peninsula
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