Ben Jones
01-10-2008, 01:23 PM
Great spot between Winnie and High Island.
Nice boardwalks, lookouts, blinds, clean bathrooms, big alligators and cool birds. The visitor's center was closed, but a whiteboard outside posted recent sightings and orientation brochures/maps were available.
Birds of prey - white-tailed kite, crested caracara, red-tailed hawk, northern harrier, kestrel, loggerhead shrike, turkey vulture, and other unidentified hawks
Ducks/geese - flocks of snow geese in the hundreds and about thirty greater white-front geese. Blue-winged teal, pintails, northern shoveller, moorehen, mallards, gadwall, lesser scaup.
Double crested and neotropical comorant, unidentified grebes, coot
Nice boardwalks, lookouts, blinds, clean bathrooms, big alligators and cool birds. The visitor's center was closed, but a whiteboard outside posted recent sightings and orientation brochures/maps were available.
Birds of prey - white-tailed kite, crested caracara, red-tailed hawk, northern harrier, kestrel, loggerhead shrike, turkey vulture, and other unidentified hawks
Ducks/geese - flocks of snow geese in the hundreds and about thirty greater white-front geese. Blue-winged teal, pintails, northern shoveller, moorehen, mallards, gadwall, lesser scaup.
Double crested and neotropical comorant, unidentified grebes, coot