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September 23, 2006
Eight participants fairly new to birding enjoyed a lovely morning of birding in Brazos Bend State Park. I challenged the participants to take a stab at identifying each bird seen with out being afraid of misidentifying it. Throughout the course of the morning the participants learned to observe the whole bird in its environment and not just focus in on its field marks. Highlights for the trip were a Western Kingbird and a juvenile male Vermillion Flycatcher seen within 100 yards of each other about 200 yards shy of the observation tower on 40-Acre Lake. Also of note was one flock of about 50 Blue-winged Teal that flew by us several times during the hike. I believe they were migrants just arriving for their winter stay on the upper Texas Coast and there were still several adult as well as numerous juvenile Purple Gallinules still around 40-Acre Lake. No Wood Stork was seen during the morning unlike the previous mornings where a large kettle of Storks were observed flying out of the park. 31 species were observed well by all during the trip and I believe all participants learned some new birding techniques and about other up coming opportunities to continue learning and improving their birding skills like the Christmas Bird Counts and the monthly surveys at Armand Bayou and Bolivar.
Participants: Faye Cunningham, Dennis Vollmar, Maricarmen Razones, Bruce and Lenore Alfredson.
~ Adam Wood, OG Field Trip Coordinator, birdman_570@yahoo.com, 713-515-1692
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