Common Name

Number

Brown Pelican

common

Neotropic Cormorant

common

Anhinga

205

Two large flocks, 33+145

Magnificent Frigatebird

30

Present almost continuously in bay and near hawk tower.

Great Blue Heron

1

Great Egret

a few

Tricolored Heron

a few

Cattle Egret

a few

Green Heron

2

Black-crowned Night-Heron

1 immature

White Ibis

flock of 12

White-faced Ibis

flock of 40

Wood Stork

2

Turkey Vulture

several

Swallow-tailed Kite

5

3 in early morning. 2 more soaring very high at 1:30 with Frigatebird, Mississippi Kites, Cooper's Hawk, Broad-winged Hawks and a Swainson's Hawk, a kettle of 17 birds.

Mississippi Kite

102

Mississippi Kites were visible throughout most of the day, making it difficult to count them as newly arriving or the same already counted. One flock in the afternoon had 45 kites.

Northern Harrier

3

Sharp-shinned Hawk

1

Cooper's Hawk

3

Great views of resting, flying and soaring Cooper's. A perched bird showed fine streaking below, more streaked in breast than belly, rounded and banded tail. Another Cooper's was harassing a Broad-winged Hawk. Clue - two hawks fighting are usually different species.

Red-shouldered Hawk

1

Broad-winged Hawk

42

Common later in the day, especially immature birds.

Swainson's Hawk

3

American Kestrel

10

Killdeer

a few

Upland Sandpiper

1

Winnie Burkett identified by sound, but no one saw it flying high above our heads.

Pomarine Jaeger

1

Scott Brandes spotted and identified this first. Large dark gull-like bird with white wing patches, harassing gulls.

Laughing Gull

common

Caspian Tern

1

Royal Tern

common

Forster's Tern

common

Black Skimmer

1

Eurasian Collared-Dove

1

Winnie Burkett pointed this bird out first, sitting on telephone line with many Mourning Doves and two White-tipped Doves. Collared Dove, when viewed from a distance, is plumper than Mourning Doves and pale compared to White-tipped Doves and lacks the white clip on the wing.

White-winged Dove

3

2 early in day, another flew past us in early afternoon.

Mourning Dove

several

Inca Dove

1

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

1

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

several

Several hummingbirds flew by, but none were identified by species.

Belted Kingfisher

2

Red-bellied Woodpecker

1

Downy Woodpecker

2

Acadian Flycatcher

1

Empidonax, probably Acadian.

Eastern Kingbird

77

Bank Swallow

5

Barn Swallow

200

Blue Jay

common

Carolina Wren

1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

common

Northern Mockingbird

1

Loggerhead Shrike

2

European Starling

a few

Prairie Warbler

1

Blue Grosbeak

1

Dickcissel

2

Orchard Oriole

several

Common Name

Number

Least Bittern

1

Great Blue Heron

2

Great Egret

6

Little Blue Heron

11

6 immature birds in white plumage. 5 adults in blue plumage.

Tricolored Heron

2

Cattle Egret

18

Green Heron

3

White Ibis

2

White-faced Ibis

43

3 at Anahuac plus flock of 40+ immature birds in field on FM 1985.

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

29

Mottled Duck

36

Blue-winged Teal

9

Turkey Vulture

1

American Kestrel

1

Purple Gallinule

2

Common Moorhen

30

Killdeer

2

Black-necked Stilt

6

Spotted Sandpiper

1

Forster's Tern

2

Black Tern

4

Smoky black terns swooping down to narrow drainage ditch.

Mourning Dove

1

Acadian Flycatcher

1

Distinct eyering, dusty sides, yellowish belly, two strong wing bars, long tail.

Eastern Kingbird

4

Barn Swallow

1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

1

Northern Mockingbird

1

Loggerhead Shrike

5

European Starling

20

Red-winged Blackbird

3

Boat-tailed Grackle

1