I spent sunday around Sabine and pleasure island. Apparently a great deluge in the area and the bird census the prior day led to no one at the woods when I first went by. Shorebirds were the main migrants Black-bellied plover were in great plumage http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232967 Lesser yellowlegs in all the ditches http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232974 http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232973 A few latish solitary sandpipers http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232975 Surprisingly few white-rumped sandpipers http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232980 http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232979 Sanderlings are getting as red as they get here http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232983 Wilson's phalaropes were the commonest bird and came in all colors http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232997 http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232993 http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150232991 Monday, Anahuac had many green herons and this one did not fly up the creek http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233750 Shoveler pond had as many purple gallinules as during the pre-ike years http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233753 A couple of orchard orioles were still trying to compete with the mockingbirds at high island http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233779 Cave swallows were perched at their culvert http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233805 Bobolinks bobolinking on Fairview http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233811 http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233807 Many hudsonian godwits on 1985 http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233829 http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233830 Joined by stilt sandpipers http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233836 http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233833 This was the only head that popped up while taking a look for the whimbrel http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233843 A wilson's plover developed an injury in the beach debris http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233846 But not as good as a killdeer http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150233847 This gray knot might summer http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150234379 Great numbers of roosting sanderlings http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150234381 And a whimbrel on Frenchtown road http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/image/150234384 All of these and more bobolinks etc can be browsed at http://www.pbase.com/joseph_kennedy_36/inbox -- Joseph C. Kennedy on Buffalo Bayou in West Houston Josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx 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
