Yesterday evening I spent several hours watching what was happening on and over
Bolivar Flats the tide was low and there was lots of open mud so birds were
very spread out. I saw very few Black Terns and their numbers should be picking
up now are they roosting some where else?
Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary--17th Str. Jetty, Galveston, Texas, US
Aug 13, 2017 5:30 PM - 8:20 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments: The main goal was to count Brown Pelicans going to Galveston Bay
islands to roost.
31 species (+4 other taxa)
Neotropic Cormorant 16
Brown Pelican 663
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 25
Snowy Egret 35
Tricolored Heron 4
Reddish Egret 2
Black-crowned/Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2
White Ibis 18
Roseate Spoonbill 39
White-tailed Kite 1
Black-necked Stilt 5
American Avocet 12
Black-bellied Plover 17
Marbled Godwit 6
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Greater Yellowlegs 5
Willet 38
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
shorebird sp. 1200 to distant to identify
Laughing Gull 175
Larus sp. 4
Least Tern 2
Caspian Tern 1
Black Tern 5
Forster's Tern 1
Royal Tern 2
tern sp. 25
Black Skimmer 95
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1
Mourning Dove 5
Northern Mockingbird 1
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Great-tailed Grackle 60
House Sparrow 2
Winnie Burkett
Worcester NY and Port Bolivar Tx
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