Christmas Bird Count

The annual 2008 Christmas Bird Count was held at the Baytown Nature Center on morning of December 20 & the afternoon of December 21st this year as part of the larger Houston Christmas Bird count.   Counters this year were Dwayne Litteer, John Mason, Gerald and Salllie Sherman.   The following bird count is the list of birds counted from the Baytown Nature Center and areas near the nature center.    Total 78 bird species.

Gadwall   120

Green-winged Teal    6 Wading Birds

Hooded Merganser   9 

Red-breasted Merganser    4

Common Goldeneye   3

Mottled Duck    2

Northern Pintail   2

Northern Shoveler   6

American Coot   3

Roseate Spoonbill   11

White Ibis    13

Pied-billed Grebe     8

Brown Pelican     8

American White Pelican    6 

Neotropic Cormorant     21

Double Crested Cormorant   12 

Great Blue Heron   6

Great Egret   12 Red-shouldered hawk

Snowy Egret    25

Reddish Egret     1

Black-crowned Night-Heron    20

Turkey Vulture    2

Black vulture    2

Osprey    3

Peregrine Falcon    1

American Kestrel    1

Northern Harrier      1

Red-shouldered Hawk     1

Red-tailed Hawk     1

Bald Eagle    1

Killdeer     12

Spotted Sandpiper     4 

Dunlin    8

Greater Yellowlegs     8 

Lesser Yellowlegs     4

Least Sandpiper     40

Sanderling    8

Laughing Gull     75

Ring-billed Gull     55

American Herring Gull    5Blue-gray Gnatcher

Bonaparte's Gull   15

Forster's Tern   4

Royal Tern     5 

Rock Pigeon     6

Mourning Dove   10

Eurasian Collared-Dove     2 

White-winged Dove     25

Eastern Screech-Owl     1

Belted Kingfisher     2

Red-bellied Woodpecker     2

Downy Woodpecker     1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker   1

Eastern Phoebe     2

Loggerhead Shrike     3

Blue Jay     2

Sedge Wren     10

Marsh Wren     2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet     22 American Goldfinch

Blue-gray Gnatcher   2

American Robin     100

Northern Mockingbird     5

European Starling     50

American Pipit     1

Pine Warbler    1

Orange-crowned Warbler    3

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)     35

Swamp Sparrow     6

Lincoln's Sparrow    5

Chipping Sparrow    8

White-crowned Sparrow     1

White-throated Sparrow   5

Savannah Sparrow   7

House Sparrow    12

Northern Cardinal     3

American Goldfinch    5

Eastern Bluebird    6

Red-winged Blackbird     100

Great-tailed Grackle     25

Sallie Sherman
Education Coordinator
Eddie V. Gray Wetlands Center
Baytown, Texas 77520
ph. 281-420-7140 fax 281-420-7142
sallie.sherman@baytown.org


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