Another beautiful spring day at the refuge and the mature male Yellow-headed Blackbirds were here in good Numbers. First of year Indigo Buntings and Prothonotary Warblers. Canada Goose 5 Wood Duck 3 Gadwall 2 American Wigeon 5 Blue-winged Teal 40 Northern Shoveler 10 Green-winged Teal 3 Canvasback 2 Redhead 13 Wild Turkey 1 Pied-billed Grebe 6 Double-crested Cormorant 35 American White Pelican 10 Great Blue Heron 6 Great Egret 3 Snowy Egret 4 Little Blue Heron 12 Cattle Egret 20 Black Vulture 8 Turkey Vulture 15 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Coot 40 American Golden-Plover 3 Killdeer 8 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 5 Lesser Yellowlegs 8 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 3 Baird's Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 12 Long-billed Dowitcher 30 Wilson's Snipe 2 Forster's Tern 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove 3 Mourning Dove 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Eastern Phoebe 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 First of year. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 3 White-eyed Vireo 3 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 6 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2 Purple Martin 2 Tree Swallow 1 Barn Swallow 4 Cliff Swallow 30 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 8 Carolina Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 10 Eastern Bluebird 15 Northern Mockingbird 6 European Starling 4 Cedar Waxwing 25 Prothonotary Warbler 3 Vesper Sparrow 4 Lark Sparrow 6 Savannah Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 1 Lincoln's Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 2 White-crowned Sparrow 2 Summer Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 10 Indigo Bunting 2 First of year. Red-winged Blackbird 200 Eastern Meadowlark 8 Yellow-headed Blackbird 80 Majority were mature males. Not uncommon in the spring here. Brown-headed Cowbird 2 House Sparrow 3 Jack Chiles Volunteer Hagerman NWR Sent from my iPad 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