Hi all, There have been a stead flow of small numbers of migrants reported at the Nature Discovery Center in Russ Pitman Park, Bellaire over the past week. For the most part these were sightings of 1 or 2 people/day for 20-30 mins of birding. I expect with the predicted rain this coming week in the Houston area we will see more migrants. Our FREE "Lunch with the Birds" birdwalks will begin this coming Wednesday, Sept 18th from noon to about 1:15. The will continue every Wednesday through November 6th, 2013. Please feel free to join us! Russ Pitman Park is located at 7112 Newcastle between Bellaire Blvd and Evergreen St just inside Loop 610 in Bellaire TX. Besides the usual resident birds we have had the following migrants over the last week or so: 9/14/13 Chimney Swifts Ruby-throated Hummers Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Black & White Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Hooded Warbler 9/13/13 Chimney Swifts Ruby-throated Hummer - 1F Great Crested Flycatcher -2 Canada Warbler Hooded Warber Ovenbird Yellow-breasted Chat 9/12/13 Chimney Swifts Ruby-throated Hummers Great Crested Flycatcher American Redstart 9/11/13 Chimney Swifts Ruby-throated Hummers Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Blue-gray Gnatcatchers Black-throated Green Warbler Hooded Warbler 9/10/13 Chimney Swifts Ruby-throated Hummers Great Crested Flycatcher -2 Eastern Wood-Pewee -3 Empid - 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers -4 Blue-winged Warbler - 1 Black & White Warbler -1 Canada W - 1m Hooded Warbler - 1m 9/9/13 Chimney Swifts Ruby-throated Hummers Great Crested Flycatcher -2 Eastern Wood-Pewee -3 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers -4 Black & White Warbler -1 Worm-eating Warbler - 1 Hooded Warbler - 1m 9/7/13 Chimney Swifts Ruby-throated Hummer 1-2F Eastern Wood-Pewee Eastern Phoebe Warbling Vireo Black & White Warbler -1 Canada Warbler - 1m American Redstart 9/6/13 Chimney Swifts Ruby-throated Hummer 1-2F Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Hooded Warbler - 1m Summer Tanager - 1F Happy birding! Mary Ann Beauchemin Senior Naturalist & Park Steward Nature Discovery Center mbeauch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 713-667-6550 (phone) 713-667-7654 (fax) For more information about the Nature Discovery Center, our programs and how you can support our work, visit www.naturediscoverycenter.org 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