Galveston County

Birded with Glenn Olsen whose expertise helped to increase our knowledge about birds and our list on Bolivar Island. 

Reddish Egret. Nice video about the Reddish hunting available at Cornell Lab.

Anhinga
American Avocet
Least Bittern
Cardinals
Red-winged Blackbird
Neo-tropic Cormorant
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Mourning Dove
Short-billed Dowitcher
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Mottled Duck
Dunlin
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Reddish Egret
White Morph Reddish Egret
Frigatebird
Scissortail Flycatcher
Common Moorhen
Purple Gallinule
Marbled Godwit
Boat-tailed Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Laughing Gull
Great-blue Heron
Green Heron
Tri-colored Heron
Yellow-crowned Heron
Killdeer
White Ibis
White-tailed Kite
Nighthawk
Mockingbirds
Eastern Meadowlark
American Oystercatcher
Brown Pelican
Black-bellied Plover
Semi-palmated Plover
Wilson's Plover
Clapper Rail
Sanderling
White-rumped Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Semi-palmated Sandpiper
Loggerhead Shrike
Black Skimmer
House Sparrow
Starlings
Roseate Spoonbill
Barn Swallow
Cave Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Black Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Least Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Ruddy Turnstone
Whimbrel
Willet

Hemphill County

Lesser Prairie Chicken

     In addition, I saw two Say's phoebes nesting somewhere on the house, the Arrington Bed and Breakfast, flying back and forth until we stood on the porch. We sat outside with Robert Ridgley, listening to the songs of meadowlarks and sparrows. 

      Update, April 14th, 2016. I returned to Dick Wilberforce's blind on the Anderson Ranch with a wonderful photographer, Nopadol Paothong. The day was cloudy with winds blowing at least twenty knots. Click this link to view my post of that day.

    

      In addition to the Lesser Prairie Chickens, I spotted cowbirds (5), Northern Harrier (1), Eastern Meadowlark (1), and Horned Lark (3), Mourning Dove (1), one Redwinged blackbird, and heard two Bobwhite Quail. From the car as we returned to the hotel, I saw sparrows, Scissortails (2) Red-tailed Hawks (4), Northern Shrikes (2), and Turkey Vultures.