Yesterday, my mom, Billy Kaselow and I drove down to Port Aransas via 37. Highlights en route included: HUGE numbers of Geese at the feedlot on CR 412 in Atascosa County...over 1000 Snow Geese, 300 Ross's Geese, 10~ Greater White-fronted Geese, and about 20 Sandhill Cranes. Also a Say's Phoebe and Pyrrhuloxia was in the area. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8319744377/in/photostream/ The usual stuff at Choke Canyon, but Green Jays, Long-billed Thrasher, Black-and-White Warbler, Olive Sparrow, Mottled Duck, and Tricolored Heron were nice. GREJ:http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8319741671/in/photostream/ LBTH:http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8319742903/in/photostream/ OLSP:http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8320935194/in/photostream Long-billed Curlew and Marbled Godwit were in the mudflats at Packery Channel in Corpus. This morning started off foggy, windy, and slow bird-wise. Nothing of note at Charlie's Pasture and the Turnbull Birding Center, but things started to pick up around 9:30, starting with a Couch's Kingbird at Paradise Pond. We then headed to Port Aransas Wetlands Park (pull off on S. Allister) and had a Wilson's Phalarope as well as a White-morph Reddish Egret. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8319740923/in/photostream/ We then moved on toward the jetty, and while there weren't good numbers of ducks and such on the water (1 Greater Scaup, 1 Common Loon, and a scattering of Red-breated Mergansers), but we had at least 4 Northern Gannets, 3 adult birds and 1 first year bird that came very close to the end of the jetty. We drove along the beach for a while, but no gulls or shorebirds of note. We then headed back to Austin. Gannets: http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8320800652/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8320800092/in/photostream/ We stopped at Goliad State Park on the way back to Austin, and had several Green Jays, a pair of Great Kiskadees, and an overwintering Wilson's Warbler and White-eyed Vireo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8319735069/in/photostream Good Birding, Sam Fason, Austin. 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