[texbirds] Palacios local interest - Beachside development
- From: "Bird.fried" <bird.fried@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:19:30 -0500
This morning I spent about 2 hours at the Beachside development, just off
Marine Center Dr. Sorry, no Gray Kingbird this year, though I did look since
the bird last year showed up on July 2. We can always hope :-)
There was a juvenile White-eyed Vireo, female Ladder-backed Woodpecker and
calling Yellow-billed Cuckoo in the Huisache scrub. I thought I heard an
Ash-throated Flycatcher but the local Mockingbirds were doing excellent
imitations of Willet, Yellowlegs, Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and Blue Jay so I
can't be sure about the Ash-throated.
There were good numbers of Bobwhite in the fields around the development but I
observed no young birds. Same goes for Eastern Meadowlark; probably a dozen
and a half adults around but no young. Though I did see one Meadowlark
carrying a food item so there may be a nest in the one of the nearby fields.
In the small freshwater marsh near the model home a Green Heron was sitting a
nest and the Grackles were still in various stages of nesting. A pair of
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks flew over.
Along the shore of Turtle Creek Bay were some Wood Ibis, Roseate Spoonbills,
some Long-billed Curlews and a HY Gull-billed Tern. Out on the long spit of
land to the east, separating Tres Palacios from Turtle Creek Bays, there was a
pair of Wilson's Plovers and about 2 dozen Least Terns. One brought a Mud
Minnow to another bird but was snubbed so he(?) promptly ate the minnow; can't
let good food go to waste. I did not observe any nests, young or HY Least
Terns. I wonder if the local Laughing Gulls did a number on their nesting
efforts.
Plenty of the other usual suspects around though nothing out of the ordinary.
It was a very pleasant morning.
Bob Friedrichs
Palacios / Houston
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