[texbirds] Padre Island-Port Aransas 8-5-12
- From: Sonny & Iris Bratz <ibratz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 12:52:30 -0700 (PDT)
I birded the beachfront from the South Jetty to the Mustang Island State Pake
Jetties, the golf course, Packery Channel Park, Dimmitt Fishing Pier area, and
Laguna Shores Road this morning and found 20 species of shorebirds, including
11 Red Knots at Marker 98. Complete list follows. Sonny Bratz, Victoria
Padre Island-Port Aransas, Nueces, US-TX
Aug 5, 2012 6:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
25.0 mile(s)
Comments: Cloudy morning
62 species
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 2
Neotropic Cormorant 1
Brown Pelican 105
Great Blue Heron 10
Great Egret 11
Snowy Egret 6
Little Blue Heron 4
Tricolored Heron 6
Reddish Egret 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3
White Ibis 4
Turkey Vulture 5
White-tailed Hawk 3
Crested Caracara 5
Common Gallinule 2
American Coot 12
Black-bellied Plover 11
Snowy Plover 7
Wilson's Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 5
Piping Plover 34
Killdeer 14
American Oystercatcher 8
Black-necked Stilt 20
Willet 185
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Long-billed Curlew 1
Marbled Godwit 6
Ruddy Turnstone 75
Red Knot 11
Sanderling 160
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3
Western Sandpiper 15
Least Sandpiper 30
Stilt Sandpiper 5
Short-billed Dowitcher 3
Laughing Gull 650
Least Tern 15
Caspian Tern 2
Black Tern 15
Common Tern 12
Forster's Tern 2
Royal Tern 5
Sandwich Tern 15
Black Skimmer 38
Rock Pigeon 6
Eurasian Collared-Dove 6
Mourning Dove 25
Inca Dove 8
Common Nighthawk 4
Chimney Swift 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 2
Couch's Kingbird 1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 1
Loggerhead Shrike 1
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 20
Cliff Swallow 3
Northern Mockingbird 6
European Starling 30
Great-tailed Grackle 80
House Sparrow 1
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