[texbirds-freelists] [texbirds] High Island and ANWR Skillern Tract 4/4/12
- From: David Hanson <DHanson139@xxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 00:52:19 -0400
Headed to High Island around 9:30 this morning. Weather still very heavy
overcast. On FM 562 about 3.5 miles before the "Y" to go to ANWR or Smith
Point there was a large flock of Long-billed Curlews out in a grass field on
the West side of the road. Down the road after turning on FM1985 the plowed
field just after passing entrance to ANWR held Northern Shovelers,
Blue-winged Teal and a couple of Fulvous Whistling-Ducks.
Stopped at Skillern Tract. There were Coots, Common Gallinules, Fulvous
Whistling-Ducks White faced Ibis, Pied-billed Grebes, Yellow-crowned
Nightherons, Double-crested Cormorants.
At the end on Fm1985 where it meets H-124 there was a nice flock of
Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks out in the field on the South side of the road.
Boy Scout Woods held a few birds mostly late in the day. There were several
Brown Thrashers, N Cardinals, Gray Catbirds, Wilson Warbler, Northern
Parula, Indigo Bunting, Baltmore Orioles, Tennesee Warblers and Orchard
Orioles.
Smith Oaks Great Egrets are nesting and some still courting. Cormorants and
Roseatte Spoonbills are running a little behind yet as well as the Snowy
Egrets. There was a late afternoon small fallout near the drips with Wilsons
Warblers, Blackburnian Warbler, Tennesee Warbler, Black and White Warbler,
Yellow-throated Warbler and one Northern Parula.
A few pictures from the Rookery!
_http://hansonnaturephotography.smugmug.com/Nature/Texas-Birds/17293655_vKBN
QB#!i=1780381359&k=7rLx3f7_
(http://hansonnaturephotography.smugmug.com/Nature/Texas-Birds/17293655_vKBNQB#!i=1780381359&k=7rLx3f7)
David and Jan Hanson
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