While out riding my recumbent trike this AM at 7, I heard, then saw my FOS Am. Pipits in my neighborhood. They usually spend the winter hanging around in the various one to two acre mowed grass lots in the area. Too bad that the number of these lots are disappearing so fast; new house are being built on four of those lots right now. The number of BBW ducks hanging around the storm water retention ponds near my home this year is staggering; I estimate at least 3 hundred, based on the number of birds flying in and out each evening and morning. Mira M. Pellerin Pearland, TX Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner