Good Afternoon TexBirders, David Benn and I took a stroll around the Palm Forest this morning and encountered a sprinkling of migrants and other species. Of particular note was a Spotted Towhee, which may be the first sighting of this species here at Sabal, as well as both Scarlet and Summer Tanagers and a couple of Northern Parulas working in the blooming retama trees. Here is a full list of species I personally sighted at Sabal Palm Sanctuary today: - Gadwall - Mottled Duck - Blue-winged Teal - Redhead - Ruddy Duck - Plain Chachalaca - Least Grebe - Pied-billed Grebe - Great Blue Heron - Great Egret - Common Gallinule - American Coot - Mourning Dove - White-tipped Dove - Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Buff-bellied Hummingbird - Golden-fronted Woodpecker - Ladder-backed Woodpecker - Brown-crested Flycatcher - Great Kiskadee - Couch's Kingbird - White-eyed Vireo - Green Jay - Black-crested Titmouse - Carolina Wren - Northern Mockingbird - Long-billed Thrasher - Orange-crowned Warbler - Northern Parula - Olive Sparrow - Spotted Towhee - Summer Tanager - Scarlet Tanager - Northern Cardinal - Hooded Oriole Link to eBird report: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S10408105 Happy Birding! - Seth -- *Seth Patterson* *Naturalist & Photographer* * Sabal Palm Sanctuary * www.sabalpalmsanctuary.org (956) 541-8034 *Watch our LIVE Bird Feeder Cam!* www.sabalpalmsanctuary.org/visit/feedercam/<http://sabalpalmsanctuary.org/visit/feedercam/> TEXBIRDS help file and Texas birding links at: http://moonmountaingroup.com/texbirds Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds