Hello Texbirders, This morning I spent 2.5 hours birding a large tract in the Peach Creek Community in southern Brazos County. Between 30 and 40 Rusty Blackbirds were in the trees and on the soggy forest floor in the Navasota River bottom. A single Roseate Spoonbill was a surprise. Ducks were plentiful. A new duck pond on the property has attracted several shorebirds. The new duck pond should increase the number of nesting Prothonotary Warblers. Here's the complete bird list for the morning with numbers for several species. Wood Duck- 25+ Gadwall Mallard Blue-winged Teal- 5 Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Hooded Merganser- 5 Pied-billed Grebe- 1 Double-crested Comorant- 3 Great Blue Heron Great Egret Roseate Spoonbill- 1 Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer- 3 Greater Yellowlegs- 2 Least Sandpiper- 12 Wilson's Snipe- 10 Mourning Dove Barred Owl- 1 calling Belted Kingfisher- 1 Red-headed Woodpecker- 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker- 3 Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Purple Martin- 2 singing overhead Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper- 1 heard Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren- 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin- 1000+ Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher- 1 American Pipit Cedar Waxwing- 200+ Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Common Yellowthroat- 2 Eastern Towhee- one Chipping Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Common Grackle Rusty Blackbird- 30-40 Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch House Sparrow Darrell Vollert Chappell Hill 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