Bird Walk Report 1/15/12

     Another beautiful day at the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center.  Highlights included a Clapper Rail and a Virginia Rail foraging next to each just off the boardwalk, allowing for some great side by side comparisons of both species.  Plus there are still some Greater Scaups lingering around amongst the rafts of Lesser Scaups in the area.  Guided bird walks are offered every Thursday-Sunday here at the SPI BNC.

 

 

 Mottled Duck            4

      American Wigeon         26

      Northern Pintail        56

      Redhead                 150

      Lesser Scaup            23

      Greater Scaup            2

      Red-breasted Merganser  17

      Pied-billed Grebe       6

      American White Pelican  23

      Brown Pelican            80

      Neotropic Cormorant     2

      Double-crested Cormorant 12

      Black-crowned Night-Heron 1

      Tricolored Heron        7

      Little Blue Heron       7

      Reddish Egret            4

      Snowy Egret             1

      Great Egret             7

      Great Blue Heron        15

      White Ibis              15

      Roseate Spoonbill       2

      Northern Harrier        2

      Clapper Rail            1

      Virginia Rail            1

      Common Gallinule        1

      American Coot            8

      Black-bellied Plover    3

      Killdeer                2

      Willet                  13

      Lesser Yellowlegs       1

      Greater Yellowlegs       3

      Spotted Sandpiper       2

      Long-billed Curlew       2

      Marbled Godwit          1

      Ruddy Turnstone         2

      Sanderling              4

      Laughing Gull            34

      Ring-billed Gull        7

      Royal Tern              18

      Forster's Tern          4

      Black Skimmer            15

      Eurasian Collared-Dove  4

      Belted Kingfisher       2

      Eastern Phoebe          1

      Tropical Kingbird       2

      Orange-crowned Warbler  2

      Yellow-rumped Warbler   3

      Common Yellowthroat     1

      Red-winged Blackbird    24

      Great-tailed Grackle    30

      Brown-headed Cowbird    3

      Bronzed Cowbird         1