Jim and Jeff led 26 birders around Black Point Drive on a cold and windy (but sunny) day. After a couple hours driving and walking, we ended the event at the Visitors Center for a picnic. Lots of fun with 64 bird species seen.
American Widgeon
Blue-wing Teal
Hooded Merganser
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Pied-billed Grebe
Anhinga
White Pelican
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Snowy egret
Tricolored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Cattle Egret
Avocet
Long-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher
Wood Stork
Turkey vulture
Black Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Kestrel
Gallinule
Coot
White Pelican
Black Skimmer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Sanderling
Dunlin
Semipalmated Plover
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Forester’s Tern
Great Horned Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
White-eyed Vireo
Tree Swallow
Boat-tail Grackle
Redwing Blackbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Palm Warbler
Catbird
Red-shouldered Hawk
Greater Black-backed Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull
Morning Dove
Ground Dove
Pheobe
Common Yellowthroat