Spent part of the day on the hawk watch tower. The day started breezy and
swallows were moving through, the wind decreased mid morning and it got warm
but birding was great as usual.
Smith Point--Candy Abshier WMA (UTC 048)(GCBO Hawk Watch loc.), Chambers,
Texas, US
Aug 11, 2017 6:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Protocol: Stationary
Comments: These are the birds I saw not official hawk watch numbers.
47 species (+6 other taxa)
Wood Stork 24
Magnificent Frigatebird 16
cormorant sp. 10
Brown Pelican 59
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 11
Snowy Egret 3
Little Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 2
Cattle Egret 5
white egret sp. 7
White Ibis 168
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 8
Osprey 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
White-tailed Hawk 1
Swainson's Hawk 2
Killdeer 5
Upland Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Willet 12
Lesser Yellowlegs 1
shorebird sp. 14
Laughing Gull 5
Sterna sp. 5
Royal Tern 9
Sandwich Tern 2
large tern sp. 23
Black Skimmer 2
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
White-winged Dove 47
Mourning Dove 1
Common Nighthawk 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 1 One was seen flying by the hawk watch platform also
called
Downy Woodpecker 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
Blue Jay 3
Purple Martin 3
Tree Swallow 5
Bank Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 35
Cliff Swallow 105 Migrants flying by probably were many more but many of
the swallows were too far away to id.
swallow sp. 450
Carolina Chickadee 2
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 21
Northern Mockingbird 2
Northern Cardinal 1
Dickcissel 2
Great-tailed Grackle 3
Orchard Oriole 14 Migrants that flew into trees near the hawk watch
platform
Winnie Burkett
Worcester NY and Port Bolivar Tx
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