Steve and Judy's Travels!

This was fun. Thanks to Rock for the heads-up. Monday evening’s count; the
last day of the backyard bird count for the year:
Number of Species: 34
All Reported: yes
Checklist:
Gadwall – 20
American Wigeon – 50
Blue-winged Teal – 50
Northern Shoveler – 40
Ring-necked Duck – 3
Pied-billed Grebe – 2
Brown Pelican – 15
Double-crested Cormorant – 1
Great Blue Heron – 1
Great Egret – 2
Snowy Egret – 1
Tricolored Heron – 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron – 5
Turkey Vulture – 1
Osprey – 1
Northern Harrier – 1
American Kestrel – 1
American Coot – 200
Killdeer – 1
Willet – 1
Lesser Yellowlegs – 1
Ruddy Turnstone – 8
Sanderling – 150
Laughing Gull – 1,000
Ring-billed Gull – 10
Herring Gull – 2
Royal Tern – 3
Eurasian Collared-Dove – 2
Belted Kingfisher – 1
Eastern Phoebe – 2
Northern Mockingbird – 2
European Starling – 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 3
Great-tailed Grackle – 15

This is the first part of our day. Redhead – 50
Ring-necked Duck – 1
Lesser Scaup – 1
Common Loon – 4
Pied-billed Grebe – 3
American White Pelican – 15
Brown Pelican – 2
Neotropic Cormorant – 70
Double-crested Cormorant – 2
Great Blue Heron – 1
Great Egret – 2
Snowy Egret – 1
White Ibis – 7
Black Vulture – 1
Turkey Vulture – 6
Osprey – 1
Northern Harrier – 2
American Kestrel – 1
American Coot – 50
American Oystercatcher – 2
Willet – 1
Laughing Gull – 40
Bonaparte’s Gull – 1
Ring-billed Gull – 2
Forster’s Tern – 6
Rock Pigeon – 15
Belted Kingfisher – 1
Northern Mockingbird – 1
Savannah Sparrow – 6

And for the second half of the day, we were at and in the vicinity of the
wildlife refuge. Tom and Kathy helped us spot all the woodpeckers. We saw
the whooping cranes, but just barely. They were so far away we couldn’t
really tell what they were, but the ranger confirmed the sighting for us.
Habitat(s):
suburban
freshwater
salt water
Number of Species: 30
All Reported: yes
Checklist:
Blue-winged Teal – 3
Redhead – 200
Ring-necked Duck – 3
Pied-billed Grebe – 4
Great Egret – 2
Snowy Egret – 1
Black Vulture – 2
Turkey Vulture – 18
Osprey – 1
Ferruginous Hawk – 1
Crested Caracara – 1
Common Moorhen – 1
American Coot – 200
Whooping Crane – 3
Mourning Dove – 1
Barred Owl – 1
Red-headed Woodpecker – 1 Confirmed
Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker – 1
Eastern Phoebe – 2
Vermilion Flycatcher – 1
American Crow – 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
Eastern Bluebird – 1
Orange-crowned Warbler – 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 2
Northern Cardinal – 3
Red-winged Blackbird – 25
Eastern Meadowlark – 4
Brewer’s Blackbird – 30