Texas Coast trip list (1 Viewer)

Here's the list of my 73 species from a Christmas Day of birding the Texas coast. I spent my time mucking around the saltmarshes, looking for Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow and Seaside Sparrow.

My list for Texas sightings is now at 345 for the year. This was not a serious Big Year attempt, but it was fun keeping track.

Enjoy,

Steve in Houston

Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Neotropic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Lesser Scaup
Red-breasted Merganser
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
American Kestrel
Clapper Rail
Common Moorhen
American Coot
American Avocet
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Short-billed Dowitcher
Marbled Godwit
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Sanderling
Dunlin
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Laughing Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Eastern Phoebe
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
American Robin
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
American Crow
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Savannah Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird

What no Roseate Spoonbill?? LOl That is one great list Steve. Good outing..

I'd be happy with a daily list that long too. Sounds like you had a great day out :t:

Actually, as I now remember, I did have a Roseate Spoonbill. It was in a bay-like area just at the end of the bridge leading off of Galveston Island. Thanks for the reminder!

Steve