There is a
Great Horned Owl nesting along the main road into Baytown Nature Center.
We saw it peeping out of its nest as we started the January bird count Thursday. I hope to see some owlets in the coming weeks.
Dedicated
David H. led the bird count group and recorded 64 species.
We were trudging along near the end of a 4.5-hour bird search when an opossum came out of the brush and approached the trail. It took a look at me and scurried away.
 |
| Not a bird. |
The list
12 Gadwall
3 Mallard (Domestic type)
8 Northern Pintail
30 Green-winged Teal
8 Hooded Merganser
2 Pied-billed Grebe
6 Neotropic Cormorant
15 Double-crested Cormorant
28 American White Pelican
9 Brown Pelican
6 Great Blue Heron
11 Great Egret
5 Snowy Egret
3 White Ibis
4 Roseate Spoonbill
5 Black Vulture
3 Turkey Vulture
1 Osprey
2 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Clapper Rail
29 Killdeer
5 Spotted Sandpiper
9 Greater Yellowlegs
5 Lesser Yellowlegs
22 Least Sandpiper
1 Wilson's Snipe
150 Laughing Gull
6 Ring-billed Gull
4 Herring Gull
1 Caspian Tern
35 White-winged Dove
5 Mourning Dove
1 Great Horned Owl
5 Belted Kingfisher
3 Red-bellied Woodpecker
2 Downy Woodpecker
1 American Kestrel
2 Eastern Phoebe
2 Loggerhead Shrike
4 Blue Jay
7 Carolina Wren
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2 Eastern Bluebird
1 Hermit Thrush
1 American Robin
3 Brown Thrasher
14 Northern Mockingbird
15 European Starling
110 Cedar Waxwing
4 Orange-crowned Warbler
1 Pine Warbler
45 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
1 Savannah Sparrow
3 Swamp Sparrow
3 White-throated Sparrow
1 Harris's Sparrow
10 White-crowned Sparrow
7 Northern Cardinal
19 Red-winged Blackbird
5 Great-tailed Grackle
30 Brown-headed Cowbird
2 American Goldfinch
3 House Sparrow
1 Tufted Titmouse
