[texbirds] Western Grebes at Thompsons "NO"
- From: DHanson139@xxxxxxx
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:06:51 -0400 (EDT)
I just came in from looking for 3 hrs for the Western Grebes with no luck.
Jan and I took the boat and ran around out there for an hour and she had to
leave so I spent 2 more hrs looking with no luck. One thing I noticed was
that there are no Grebes of any species left out there. 2 weeks ago there
were a lot of eared and some Horned but not now. There were still 8-10
Common Loons out there though and maybe 150 Red-breasted Mergansers that had 3
Bonaparte's Gulls feeding around them.
I ran all the way back into Tabs bay that goes under the Fred Hartman
Bridge and there were a few Lesser Scaup out there but that was all. I then ran
down the Ship Channel parallel with Atkinson Island to about marker 87-88
and slowly eased down the Island back towards the barge cut. The only thing
of real note there was a large group of mixed birds sitting on the shell
beach. There were probably 200 Black Skimmers, Laughing Gulls, Ring-billed
Gulls, Herring Gulls, Willets, and Sanderlings.
David Hanson
Baytown/Mont Belvieu Area
Chambers County
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