Subject: [Tweeters] Goose Island and drive between heading to Alamo Inn
Date: Thu Feb 20 05:38:14 PST 2020
From: Vicki Biltz - vickibiltz at gmail.com

Hi Tweets, Susan and I Started from San Antonio to The Goose Island State
Park area, and then to Alamo Inn on Monday, Feb 17th.
Birds
Great Tailed Grackles, whose counting?
Black Vultures
Turkey Vultures
Red Tail Hawks
White Tailed Hawk
Harris Hawks
Sandhill Cranes 6 or more
Whooping Cranes 8 total
American White Pelicans
Brown Pelicans 2
Curlews 4-5
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Vermillion Flycatcher. 1
Roseate Spoinbills. 30 one location
Yellow Crowned Night Heron juvenile 1
Snowy Egrets a lot
Great Egrets 20 +
Killdeer several pairs
Spotted Sandpiper 1 juvenile
Anhinga 3
Red Headed Ducks. 50+
Blue Winged Teals 30 total
Gadwalls.
Northern Shovelers
Mallard. 1 pair
Pie Billed Grebe 3
American Coots. Large rafts
Ruby Crowned Kinglet 3
Black Crested titmouse. 5 +
Northern cardinals 7+
Great Kiskadee 8-10
Couches Kingbird 1
Eastern Bluebird, 1 pair
Yellow Rumps 10+
Crested Caracaras
Ospreys
Ladder Backed Woodpeckers 1 pair
Laughing Gulls numerous
Herring Gull 1
Eastern phoebe
Mockingbirds many!!!
Brown Headed Cowbirds 6
This was in the little town before you enter the park.
The following day we were accompanied by Mary Beth as our guide and that
list should be on my E-Bird.
That would be the 18.
Yesterday the 19, highlights were
Red Crowned Parrot 5 Valley Nature center
Butterfly Museum was recorded on my EBird as well, 3Audubon orioles being
the highlight, as well as McCalls Eastern Screech Owl.
White Tailed Kite
On the way out of Butterfly Museum

The rest of the day was chilly and damp. Not as much bird activity.
Today it's rainy so far, so we're getting a later start. only my cameras
have raincoats
Vicki Biltz
Buckley Wa 97321

Currently We (Susan Davison and I) are at Alamo Inn.
Happy birding





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