An excellent program idea, and wonderful results!
Keep up the great work!
Clay Taylor
TOS Life Member
Calallen (Corpus Christi) TX
Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
401-965-9064
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Subject: [texbirds] Sheldon Lake Birding League RESULTS
We celebrated our first Sheldon Lake Birding League champions yesterday! Here
are the winners:
Most Species Seen: Team "Willet or Won't It" with 79 species Most Park Outings:
Team "Cheep Thrills" with 12 outings Best Team Name: Team "Talk Birdy to Me"
Together these teams saw 116 species (see all sightings below) in the park from
Sept 17-Oct 17. Great job teams, thank you for participating!
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Canada Goose
Snow Goose
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Least Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Wood Stork
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
American Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Mississippi Kite
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Gallinule
American Coot
American Avocet
Killdeer
Wilson's Snipe
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Laughing Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Great Horned Owl
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
House Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Swamp Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Scaly-breasted Munia
Happy Birding!
Hannah Buschert
Park Ranger II (Lead Interpreter)
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Sheldon Lake State Park
14140 Garrett Road
Houston, Texas 77044
(281) 456-2800 x232
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