Connie Sandlin
05-05-2008, 10:36 PM
A couple of people arrived on April 23 and 4 people (or maybe more, not sure) stayed over until April 28, with the "official" Audubon Dallas being from April 24-27. All together, 171 species were identified, and of course a few got away without being identified.
There were a total of 11 participants with experience ranging from intermediate to expert (ornithologist). We enjoyed each other's company tremendously and everyone got life list birds, even the experts. It was a great trip and the weather was mild. Unfortunately, the "fallout" happened after I had already had to leave to come home on Sunday afternoon. A front came through increasing the variety of birds being seen at the primary sanctuaries.
The "rail walk" at Anahuac was memorable, flushing a Black Rail, 2 Yellow Rails, and 2 Soras. It was a very demanding experience; I will admit I was the first to wimp out, but I was soon joined by others. :o
Species list - a couple of warblers may be out of taxonomic order.
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Magnificent Frigatebird
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Crested Caracara
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Yellow Rail
Black Rail
Clapper Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Wilson’s Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-Billed Curlew
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Laughing Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Swainson’s Thrush
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Blue-Winged Warbler
Golden-Winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-Breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Savannah Sparrow
Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-Crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
House Sparrow
Also,
Plegadis sp. Ibis (White-faced or Glossy - saw the body but not enough time to see the face)
Grebe sp. – not Pied-billed
unidentified Empidonax flycatchers
unidentified raptor
There were a total of 11 participants with experience ranging from intermediate to expert (ornithologist). We enjoyed each other's company tremendously and everyone got life list birds, even the experts. It was a great trip and the weather was mild. Unfortunately, the "fallout" happened after I had already had to leave to come home on Sunday afternoon. A front came through increasing the variety of birds being seen at the primary sanctuaries.
The "rail walk" at Anahuac was memorable, flushing a Black Rail, 2 Yellow Rails, and 2 Soras. It was a very demanding experience; I will admit I was the first to wimp out, but I was soon joined by others. :o
Species list - a couple of warblers may be out of taxonomic order.
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Pied-billed Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Magnificent Frigatebird
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Crested Caracara
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Yellow Rail
Black Rail
Clapper Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Wilson’s Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Long-Billed Curlew
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Stilt Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson’s Phalarope
Laughing Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Least Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bank Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Veery
Swainson’s Thrush
Wood Thrush
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Blue-Winged Warbler
Golden-Winged Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Palm Warbler
Bay-Breasted Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Mourning Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Summer Tanager
Scarlet Tanager
Savannah Sparrow
Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-Crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
House Sparrow
Also,
Plegadis sp. Ibis (White-faced or Glossy - saw the body but not enough time to see the face)
Grebe sp. – not Pied-billed
unidentified Empidonax flycatchers
unidentified raptor