[texbirds] Notes from the coast 12/4/2013
- From: Winnie <wbburkett@xxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 09:44:52 -0500 (EST)
The Bolivar Peninsula was very birdy yesterday. Fog made birding a little more
challenging. From the North Jetty we watched lots of Black-bellied Plovers
catching long worms.
This is a list Bolivar Flats we birded from the jetty and the beach
Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary (UTC 058), Galveston, US-TX
Dec 4, 2013 9:20 AM - 12:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.0 mile(s)
Comments: foggy day with many birds and challenging light
51 species (+3 other taxa)
Mottled Duck 2
Northern Shoveler 25
Neotropic Cormorant 15
American White Pelican 26
Brown Pelican 18
Great Blue Heron 5
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 8
Little Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 1
Reddish Egret 2
Roseate Spoonbill 1
Osprey 1
Northern Harrier 4
Clapper Rail 2
Black-necked Stilt 28
American Avocet 6000 estimate
American Oystercatcher 3
Black-bellied Plover 69
Piping Plover 2
Killdeer 3
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Willet 28
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Long-billed Curlew 2
Marbled Godwit 57
Sanderling 250
Dunlin 150
Western Sandpiper 55
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 7
shorebird sp. 3000 light and distance made identification impossible
Laughing Gull 712
Ring-billed Gull 21
Herring Gull 5
Caspian Tern 2
Forster's Tern 3
Royal Tern 5
Black Skimmer 403
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Loggerhead Shrike 3
Horned Lark 5
House Wren 1
Sedge Wren 3
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 25
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Savannah Sparrow 7
Nelson's Sparrow 45
Swamp Sparrow 3
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Eastern/Western Meadowlark 3
Great-tailed Grackle 15
Winnie Burkett
Friendswood & the Bolivar Peninsula
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