[texbirds] anahuac, high island Sat, Apr 6

  • From: Carolyn Dill <carolyn_dill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 18:08:59 -0700 (PDT)

I managed to have a eleven warbler, two vireo day in spite of warm temps and 
clear skies, 
which is not as good as a front with overcast and rainy. 
Long hours of not seeing anything.
Started at Anahuac: Fulvous Wh Duck, KIng Rail (or perhaps some would 
say cling rail) least bittern, green heron, gull billed tern, rough winged 
swallows.
Hooks was the best site in the morning: hooded, kentucky, swainson's warbler, 
orange crowned, summer tanager
Boys' Scout: Lousiana Waterthrush

Smith's Oaks had the rest: Prothonotary, yellow rumped, B&W, Tennessee, 
ovenbird, 
n. parula, blue headed vireo and white eyed. RC kinglets were common.
Strangely, there is still a red breasted nuthatch making the rounds of the big 
oaks. 

I found snowy plovers in two locations: a pair off the oil field road just 
south 
of high island, 
near where a lot of gulls are roosting. One snowy at Rollover Pass. Other 
plovers are 
mostly piping, a few Wilson's. Plenty of the usual shorebirds at Rollover: 
avocets,
dunlins, willets, marbled godwits, sandlings, turnstones, just missed out on 
oystercatcher. 
You can also see Wilson's plovers on Canal Street. 

Yacht Basin Road had a Clapper Rail half hidden in reeds.

1985 had some whimbrels and possible Bairds'/semipalmated with them. 

Carolyn Dill
Houston

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