Chamber's County has a new site that has some great birding potential.
The Galveston Bay Foundation just opened the Turtle Bayou Nature
Preserve. I visited it yesterday for the first time and I wasn't there
at a good time and still managed 24 species. The habitat is mixed and
I suspect it will yield a good list with some birding.
The Turtle Bayou Nature Preserve West Tract is 514 acres. Not all of
the trails are done yet, I got down a half mile dead end before I
figured that out! There is some access to Turtle Bayou and at least
eventually Lake Anahuac.
The parking lot is about 1 mile south of I10 on FM563 and is well
marked. It's right before you cross Turtle Bayou. There is an East
Tract also across the FM563 but I didn't have time to explore that
see http://www.galvbay.org/uncategorized/turtle-bayou-nature-preserve/
Turtle Bayou Nature Preserve - West Tract, Chambers, Texas, US
Oct 17, 2016 1:14 PM - 2:14 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
24 species
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Cattle Egret 12
White Ibis 14
White-faced Ibis 7
Turkey Vulture 2
Killdeer 1
Least Sandpiper 2
Long-billed Dowitcher 7
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Eastern Phoebe 5
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 10
House Wren 2
Sedge Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Northern Cardinal 8
Indigo Bunting 6
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S32086740
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)
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David Sarkozi
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