Bird Walk Report 4/16/2010

Total Birding Time: 4 hours Party Size: 14
 Number of Species: 68
 

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck : 8
 Mallard (Domestic type) : 1
 Mottled Duck : 3
 Blue-winged Teal : 4
 Brown Pelican : 12
 Double-crested Cormorant : 2
 Least Bittern : 2
 Great Blue Heron : 6
 Great Egret : 2
 Snowy Egret : 3
 Little Blue Heron : 3
 Tricolored Heron : 4
 Cattle Egret : 6
 Black-crowned Night-Heron : 4
 White Ibis : 6
 Osprey : 2
 Clapper Rail : 2
 Virginia Rail : 1
 Sora : 2
 Common Moorhen : 4
 American Coot : 2
 Black-bellied Plover : 1
 Black-necked Stilt : 8
 Spotted Sandpiper : 2
 Solitary Sandpiper : 1
 Greater Yellowlegs : 4
 Willet : 8
 Lesser Yellowlegs : 2
 Upland Sandpiper : 1
 Marbled Godwit : 1
 Least Sandpiper : 6
 Short-billed Dowitcher : 12
 Laughing Gull : 25
 Ring-billed Gull : 4
 Least Tern : 8
 Gull-billed Tern : 2
 Caspian Tern : 3
 Royal Tern : 12
 Black Skimmer : 4
 Mourning Dove : 4
 Yellow-billed Cuckoo : 1
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird : 8
 Belted Kingfisher : 1
 Eastern Kingbird : 3
 White-eyed Vireo : 1
 Purple Martin : 4
 Tree Swallow : 5
 Northern Rough-winged Swallow : 8
 Barn Swallow : 25
 Marsh Wren : 4
 Gray Catbird : 2
 Northern Mockingbird : 4
 Blue-winged Warbler : 1
 Tennessee Warbler : 3
 Northern Parula : 2
 Yellow-rumped Warbler : 5
 Black-and-white Warbler : 2
 Kentucky Warbler : 1
 Common Yellowthroat : 2
 Hooded Warbler : 4
 Savannah Sparrow : 6
 Lincoln's Sparrow : 2
 Indigo Bunting : 4
 Red-winged Blackbird : 15
 Great-tailed Grackle : 13
 Orchard Oriole : 5
 Hooded Oriole : 2
 Baltimore Oriole : 2
 

*** We also want to announce an Early Birding special at the SPI BNC during Migration (April through May 21st):  Half price admission from 7 am – 9 am at 6801 Padre.

Please note:  Gates at the Convention Center close at 5 pm, so either park at 6801 Padre or be ready to leave the Convention Center before 5 pm. ***

Boardwalks are open from sunrise to sunset – but to access you need to come to the south entrance of the Birding Center (6801 Padre).

Cate Ball
Manager

(956) 243-8179

Saturday, May 1^st at 11 am, Dr. Genaro Lopez (UTB) will be talking about Evolutionary Theory:  The Greatest Show on Earth.

Don't forget about our Birdwalks on Saturdays and Sundays at 9:30 am and again at 2 pm. 

Pelagic trips scheduled for July 17, August 21 & September 11, 2010.  $150 ea out of the Osprey Docks here on South Padre Island.  Call or e-mail for questions and/or reservations.

See you on the boardwalks...