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Quintana and Bryan Beach Field Trip Report PDF Print E-mail
Written by Adam Wood   
Tuesday, 18 August 2009 09:35

August 15, 2009 

 

Steamy and hot weather greeted the participants on the OG trip to Quintana on August 15, 2009. We started out at the base of the Quintana Jetty hopping to find an odd gull or shorebird since this is one of the areas along the Upper Texas Coast that has a propensity for turning up rare gulls. However, that usually occurs later in the year. The Jetty was packed with fisherman when we arrived but the beach itself was quite and I was expecting to see a large congregation of gulls and terns near the base of the jetty. There was a good collection of gulls and terns there but not nearly in the concentration that I am used to. Even more surprising was the fact that the only gull along that stretch of Quintana Beach was laughing gulls. We did see five species (least, black, royal, sandwich and common) of terns scattered along that stretch of beach. There were numerous black terns in various stages of molt. Some of them were quite comical looking. Shorebirds were also scarce along this stretch with only a few large pods of sanderlings being seen with a couple of ruddy turnstones mixed in. We did manage to get a good study of one least sandpiper and one semipalmated sandpiper that were foraging fairly close to each other in the wrack line. We got really good views so that we could study the difference in bill structure of the two birds and even get a feel for the slight size difference between the two. Other noteworthy birds seen were a group of four magnificent frigatebirds that came sailing over head while we were strolling down the beach and five Wilson’s plovers resting higher on the beach towards the dunes. After walking this stretch of beach we headed over to the pavilion at the Quintana Beech County Park for a mid morning snack break.

 

After our snack break we headed over to the Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary to see if any migrant passerines were around. When we arrived at the sanctuary it was very calm with hardly any air moving. The breeze that we welcomed on the beach was gone and it felt like we were in an oven. Most likely due to the heat there was not much moving in the sanctuary. We did managed to spot one male yellow warbler, three female orchard orioles, a hummingbird and a flycatcher both of which stayed only briefly and were not able to be identified. After we finished baking in the hot weather while searching for anything moving we made our way towards the Bryan Beach were we hoped to find the red knots that had been previously reported there.

 

On the way to Bryan Beach we made a couple of stops. We first stopped at the LNG Ponds that now due to the drought conditions are basically dried up except for two small ponds. As I had surmised the small ponds had attracted a few shorebirds. We again got a good study of all three small peeps. As a few individuals of each least, semipalmated and western sandpipers were present foraging in the moist mud on the edge of the ponds. Also, there were greater and lesser yellowlegs. After we finished studying the peeps we continued towards Bryan Beach stopping once more at the lagoons north of Bryan Beach. Like the LNG Ponds the lagoon was virtually dried up with only one large inundated area remaining that had a good congregation of birds tending it. The only highlights here were reddish egret including one white phased individual and our sixth species of tern on the day, the Caspian tern.

 

We then proceeded to Bryan Beach that was crowded with beach goers enjoying the last few days before school starts marking the end of summer. The plan was to go all the way to go to the mouth of Brazos River to find the red knots or an odd gull but one of our party had left the lagoon early to scout out Bryan Beach and informed us that they had not seen the red knots towards the Brazos River when we caught up with them. So we then were deciding whether to turn around or make the trek to the mouth of the Brazos to see if we could find the knots in the un-drivable stretch of the beach. While were debating this I got a call from Bernice on my cell that her grouped had found the red knots back towards were we first had driven onto Bryan Beach. We immediately turned around and caught up with them and everybody got great looks at the three knots one of which was already molted into basic (winter) plumage. It was a great way to end the first OG trip of the year.

 

In all we had 20 to 25 participants on the trip and together we found 44 species of birds including an unidentified hummingbird and flycatcher. On the whole both migrant shorebirds and passerines were scarce as well as several expected species like both dowitchers, ring-billed gull, herring gull, and Forster’s tern not been seen at all. I can honestly say that for the first time on an OG trip what was missed was more notable then what was seen. I can not remember the last time I went birding on the Upper Texas Coast and only saw one species of gull. I hope everybody enjoyed the trip as much as I did and I hope to see you all on future trips this year..

 

Bird List

 

Brown Pelican                                                                          (Numerous)

Magnificent Frigatebird                                                             (5: 1M, 3F & 1 Juv.)

Reddish Egret                                                                           (2: 1-white phase)

Snowy Egret                                                                             (1)

Great Egret                                                                               (1)

Great Blue Heron                                                                     (1)

Tricolored Heron                                                                      (1)

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron                                                  (2: Juv.)

Black-crowned Night-Heron                                                    (1: Flyby)

White Ibis                                                                                 (Numerous)

Black Vulture                                                                           (5)

Turkey Vulture                                                                         (2)

Killdeer                                                                                    (5)

Wilson’s Plover                                                                        (5)

Black-necked Stilt                                                                    (1)

Lesser Yellowlegs                                                                     (1)

Greater Yellowlegs                                                                   (2)

Willet                                                                                       (5)

Long-billed Curlew                                                                   (1: Flyby)

Ruddy Turnstone                                                                      (5)

Red Knot                                                                                 (5: 1 Basic, 4 Eclipse)

Sanderling                                                                                (Numerous)

Semipalmated Sandpiper                                                          (5)

Western Sandpiper                                                                   (3)

Least Sandpiper                                                                       (7)

Laughing Gull                                                                            (Numerous)

Caspian Tern                                                                            (4)

Royal Tern                                                                               (Numerous)

Sandwich Tern                                                                         (2)

Common Tern                                                                          (2)

Least Tern                                                                                (Numerous)

Black Tern                                                                               (Numerous)

Mourning Dove                                                                        (3)

Eurasian Collared-Dove                                                            (2)

Common Nighthawk                                                                 (1: Flyby)

Hummingbird sp.                                                                      (1)

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher                                                           (2)

Flycatcher sp.                                                                           (1)

Loggerhead Shrike                                                                   (2)

Northern Mockingbird                                                              (2)

Yellow Warbler                                                                        (1: Male)

Red-winged Blackbird                                                              (2)

Great-tailed Grackle                                                                 (Numerous)

Orchard Oriole                                                                         (3: All Females)

 

 ~ Adam Wood,   OG Field Trip Coordinator,   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ,   713-515-1692
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 18 August 2009 14:11 )
 
January 17, 2009: Field Trip to Brazos Bend State Park & Davis Estates Report PDF Print E-mail
Written by Adam Wood   
Monday, 19 January 2009 11:04

Ornithology Group’s Brazos Bend State Park Trip Report

 

Date: 1/17/09 from 8:00 am to 6:30 pm
Locations: Brazos Bend State Park and south side of Davis Estates Road.
Weather: Cloudy, calm and cool to start the day but warmed up as the day progressed. Winds picked up in the afternoon.
Temperature: 41-69 ºF
Participants: ~ 30+ 

 

Thirty or so participants came out on an overcast winter’s day in January to bird Brazos Bend State Park and the Davis Estates Area. The day started out on the cool side but the winds were calm and it warmed up nicely as the day progressed. We started out by hiking around 40-Acre Lake. Bill Godley informed us that this winter they have had more duck diversity on the lake then in many years. I tell ya he wasn’t kidding. We had eight species of ducks observed on the lake, which included four Fulvous-Whistling Ducks. Blue-winged and Green-winged Teal were the predominate species on the lake. The other highlight for 40 Acre Lake was a cooperative Marsh Wren that provided most of the participants with very satisfying looks at it. After finishing the hike around the lake we decided to search for the Black-throated Green Warbler that appears to be overwintering in the park. We managed to locate it in a Live Oak on the east side of the 40 Acre Lake Parking Lot. After every body had their fill of the lovely male Black-throated Green Warbler we headed out to the prairie behind Hoots Hollow to look for Brown Thrasher and Wilson’s warbler. We dipped on both but did get some brief glances of uncooperative sedge wrens. After that we decided it was time to head over to Elm Lake to go find what was planned to be the only big highlight bird of the trip that had been previously staked out. 

 

When we got over to Elm Lake we decided we would go for the special target bird for the trip and the Vermilion Flycatchers before stopping for lunch. We made a beeline for the swampy area between fishing peers 2 and 4 on the north side of the Elm Lake Trail to find our special target bird the pair of Rusty Blackbirds that had been first found by Marcy, one of the participants, during the Brazos Bend State Park CBC on December 20th. The Rusty Blackbirds had usually been working the area between fishing peers 2 and 3 but when we worked that area there were no rustys to be found so we headed down a bit further between piers 3 and 4 when a noisy group of boy scouts were walking towards us from the other direction. As we got closer to each other I saw a lone dark large passerine flying through the wooded swampy area towards us. It wound up landing in a tree mid way between us and the boy scouts and I knew that was the bird of the hour. Sure enough when I got my bins on it it was indeed the Rusty Blackbird. I waived everybody over and while the participants were walking up to where I was the other rusty blackbird flew in. Both the adult male and the sub-adult male were very accommodating giving all the participants great looks at them. We all thought this was going to be the highlight of the trip but we were to be in store for a big surprise about an hour later after we stopped for lunch. Completing the loop around Elm Lake and on the way back to the picnic area we found both the sub-adult and adult male vermilion flycatchers.  

 

On the way to the cars to get our lunches me and a few participants broke a way from the posse to go search a Live Oak for a possible female Tropical Parula that had been seen by Marie Asscherick and Judy Berhens the weekend before. Marie had called me up mid week and described what she had seen and what she thought the bird was and based on her description I was in agreement and I informed her that I would make an effort to relocate it during the field trip. We searched the oak tree it was originally reported in only to find a lone Ruby-crowned Kinglet. After searching the tree for 15-20 minutes most of the participants who had joined me in the search left to join the rest of the group for lunch. Me and the remaining few participants decided that on our way back to the lunch spot we would check the other live oaks. We first went to the live oak nearest the oak we had just searched and this tree had more activity in it. With in a few minutes I spotted a bird with a bright yellow throat through the dense foliage. I exclaimed to the few participants near me that I believe I had the desired bird. I immediately got them on the area it was foraging in and they were able to get on the bird. It took several minutes to get a good clean look at the bird to verify all the proper field marks for a female Tropical Parula. Once we verified that we had the Tropical Parula we summed the rest of the gang. The bird was very flighty not staying in one place for more than a few seconds but after observing it for over 30 minutes all the participants got great looks at it and were in agreement on the id of the splendid bird. Tropical Parula are very rarely seen outside of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and this may be the first accepted record of for Brazos Bend State Park. After owing and awing at that bird we decided it was time to leave the park and go to bird Davis Estates Road and surrounding areas.  

The rest of the trip was spent birding the Davis Estates area including Long Point Lake where there had been Canvasbacks reported regularly. I was the last to arrive at the meeting spot since I had stayed back with the parula to make sure Kevin got a look at it and to finish writing my field notes on the observation. I was pleased to hear after I arrived that the group had gotten good looks at the raft of roughly 50 Canvasback on the lake. Out on Davis Estates the wind had picked up and I figured this would make the birding more difficult. Unfortunately, Dan the care taker for the landfill was out of town so we did not have access to the palm warbler area which, would severely limit out ability to find the palm warblers the last target bird I had planned for the trip. I tried to tape the palm warblers in from the other side of the fence but I figured with the wind up it was a futile effort, which turned out to be correct. However, while waiting and hoping for a palm warbler to pop up a participant exclaimed that she had a kingbird. When finally getting a scope on the possible kingbird I noticed the orange primaries and exclaimed that it was not a kingbird but actually a Myiarchus sp. flycatcher that after a little closer examination proved to be an Ash-throated Flycatcher. After that sighting most of the participants decided to call it a day. A few lingered with me to try and see if we could see a Short-eared Owl or Woodcock fly in at nautical twighlight. Unfortunately, neither bird was seen but it was a very nice way to end a very productive day of birding. The only other highlight for the Davis Estates was a lone male Hooded Merganser observed on South Lake. 

We managed to find 71 species of birds in the state park alone and added an additional 11 species out at Davis Estates for a total of 82 species for the whole trip. I was hoping to approach 100 but with the time spent observing the Rusty Blackbirds and Tropical Parula that ate into the time to potentially find a few additional species of birds. I believe all the participants had a very enjoyable day with most participants either adding the Rusty Blackbird or the Tropical Parula as a life bird. I hope to see everybody on future trips.

 

Bird List 

Brazos Bend State Park:

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna autumnalis     30
Fulvous Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna bicolor     4
Snow Goose - Chen caerulescens     15
Ross's Goose - Chen rossii     2
Gadwall - Anas strepera     6
American Wigeon - Anas americana     5
Blue-winged Teal - Anas discors     40
Northern Shoveler - Anas clypeata     1
Green-winged Teal - Anas crecca     35
Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris     5
Pied-billed Grebe - Podilymbus podiceps     5
Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus     5
Anhinga - Anhinga anhinga     4
Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias     2
Great Egret - Ardea alba     2
Snowy Egret - Egretta thula     2
Tricolored Heron - Egretta tricolor     2
Black-crowned Night-Heron - Nycticorax nycticorax     4
White Ibis - Eudocimus albus     15
White-faced Ibis - Plegadis chihi     3
Roseate Spoonbill - Platalea ajaja     1
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura     3
Sharp-shinned Hawk - Accipiter striatus     1
Red-shouldered Hawk - Buteo lineatus     3
Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis     1
Common Moorhen - Gallinula chloropus     50
American Coot - Fulica americana     100
Sandhill Crane - Grus canadensis     3
Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus     10
Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca     1
Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla     1
Wilson's Snipe - Gallinago delicata     5
Caspian Tern - Sterna caspia     1
Barred Owl - Strix varia     1
Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus     5
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius     1
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens     3
Pileated Woodpecker - Dryocopus pileatus     2
Eastern Phoebe - Sayornis phoebe     10
Vermilion Flycatcher - Pyrocephalus rubinus     1
Blue-headed Vireo - Vireo solitarius     1
American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos     10
Cave Swallow - Petrochelidon fulva     40
Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor   30
Carolina Chickadee - Poecile carolinensis     2
Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor     2
Carolina Wren - Thryothorus ludovicianus     5
House Wren - Troglodytes aedon     5
Sedge Wren - Cistothorus platensis     3
Marsh Wren - Cistothorus palustris     2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula     15
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - Polioptila caerulea     5
Eastern Bluebird - Sialia sialis     5
Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus     1
American Robin - Turdus migratorius     3
American Pipit - Anthus rubescens     5
Orange-crowned Warbler - Vermivora celata     2
Tropical Parula - Parula pitiayumi     1     A possible female Tropical Parula was first reported in a large leafed out oak tree with spanish moss between Big Creek and the end of the road to Elm Lake a week ago. The bird was relocated in a different oak tree along the south bank of Big Creek and north of the end of the road into Elm Lake. It was observed actively gleaning food from the leaves of the oak tree. Yellow extended down from the base of the lower mandible through the throat and breast to the top of the belly. A little hint of orange was observed in the central upper breast area but it lacked the black, red and orange breast band of Northern Parulas. The belly and undertail coverts were white. It had a notched tail with white undertail feathers with a darker area in between that the white almost appeared "v" shaped. It had two prominent white wing bars on blue wings. It had a olive green mantle and a blue crown with a hint of green in the nape. It had a blue face with no white eye arcs like Northern Parula. It was determined to be a female due to the lack of a noticeable orange wash in the central breast area and the lack of a dark mask around the eye. I obtained a few poor quality photographs of this bird but they do depicted the key field marks. Notes about this bird and the photographs will be submited to the TBRC. Bird was observed for close to 40 minutes and was still there when I left.
Yellow-rumped Warbler - Dendroica coronata     25
Black-throated Green Warbler - Dendroica virens     1     This adult male apparently has been over wintering in the park in the oak trees near the restrooms at 40-Acre Lake. There have been numerous reports of a Black-throated Green in this area since November. The bird was observed foraging in a large leafed out oak near Hoots Hallow Trail but from the north side of the 40-Acre Lake parking lot. It had a very nice dark black throat with the bright yellow ariculars and face. It had a light grayish yellow crown. It had two prominent wingbars had heavy dark black horizontal streaking along the flanks. It was determined to be male due to the all black throat. It did not vocalize during the observation period. I observed it well for about 3 minute. The bird was still there when I left it.
Wilsons Warbler - Wilsonia pusilla     1
Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichas     1
Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis     3
Lincoln's Sparrow - Melospiza lincolnii     2
Swamp Sparrow - Melospiza georgiana     2
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis     10
Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus     15
Rusty Blackbird - Euphagus carolinus     2     Observed between fishing piers 3 and 4 in a wooded swampy area off to the south side of the Elm Lake Trail before the pilant slough trail heading west along side Elm Lake. This pair of Rusty Blackbirds has been observed in this location since the Brazos Bend CBC on December 20, 2008. I did obtain decent photographs of both individuals. Both birds still had rusty splotches on their mantles and in their wings especially along the edges of the secondaries and coverts. The sub-adult male was a lot rustier then the adult male with the rust appearing on the crown, face, throat and breast. The adult male appeared a lot darker with minimal rust on it mantle and an almost all black crown except for some white speckling. Its throat and breast were also a lot darker. Both birds had the nice clear light yellow eye. They both had short tails and medium length, thin and slender bills. The birds were observed well for about 20 minutes and were still there when I left them.
American Goldfinch - Carduelis tristis     1

~ Adam Wood,   OG Field Trip Coordinator,   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ,   713-515-1692
Last Updated ( Monday, 26 January 2009 08:45 )
 
November 15, 2008: Lake Texana Trip Report PDF Print E-mail
Written by Adam Wood   
Monday, 17 November 2008 01:01

Ornithology Group’s Lake Texana Trip 

 

Date: 11/15/08 from 8:00 am to 2:30 pm

Locations: Lavaca/Navidad Estuary, Bennet Park, Lake Texana State Park & Palmetto Bend Dam.

Weather: Sunny with strong winds (4)

Temperature: 39-50 ºF

Participants: 12 (David Sarkozi, John Berner, Frank Farese, Karen Terrel, Lucy Last, Janice West, Fred Campbell, Dick Massey, Barbara Massey, Adam Wood, Bruce Alfredson, Lenore Alfredson)

 

Twelve participants came out on a very windy and chilly but sunny late fall day in November to bird locations in Jackson County around Lake Texana. We started out at the Lavaca/Navidad Estuary (CTC 023) in blistery winds that probably made for a 10 degree wind chill and a temperature of 36 with the wind chill. We scopped out the estuary and checked the woods on the other side of the road to see what we could find. Hunters were out in the blinds in the estruary and they had their decoys scattered about, which made identifying which ducks were alive and which were not challenging. We did manage to pick out a few ducks from the decoys. The most numerous being a small raft of Green-winged Teals that had a smattering of Gadwalls, Mallards and a Northern Shoveler mixed in. As we were scanning through the decoys in the estuary we found a Royal Tern that was fishing in the estuary. Royal Terns are rare inland away from the coast making this a very good find and the tern wound up being our bird of the trip. While scanning the estuary we had a couple large flocks of Greater White-fronted Geese fly over and a small flock of Snow Geese and Sandhill Crane fly over as well. While waiting for something new and interesting to fly into the Estuary a Belted Kingfisher that had caught a large fish provided us with some entertainment as we watched it try to figure out how to eat the large fish. The other bird of note observed at the Estuary was an adult Bald Eagle that was flying over the woods on the other side of the road. That was the bird I had planned the stop at Palmetto Bend Dam around. So it made the decision to go to Bennett Park (CTC 024) after we had our fill of the estuary easy.

 

When we first arrived at Bennett Park it was still very windy and we decided to head into the deepest part of the woods to try and get some shelter from the wind. Also, figuring that is where the birds were likely to be. Sure enough we were right and we came across a nice mixed species flock in the middle of the woodlot that included Golden-crowned Kinglet and Pine Siskin, two species that are irruptive in southeast Texas that usually only  show up as overshoots on the first couple good cold fronts. Surprisingly these were not life birds for any of the participants. After observing that flock for a while we unfortunately ran short of time because I had agreed to meet the Lake Texana State Park Naturalist at 11:00 for a hour long hike for the group in the state park (CTC 020).

 

We wound up getting to the state park fashionably late and found it packed with patrons. We meet Cindy the naturalist at the nature center and she took us on a short hour long hike along two of the many trails in the state park. The only bird of note seen was a nice juvenile “Krider’s” Red-tailed Hawk observed flying over the park road. After the hike we broke for lunch. After lunch we decided that since the park was so crowded we would not spend any more time there and head over to Palmetto Bend Dam (CTC 022) to try and see more of our national bird even though we had already seen one earlier.

 

 

The wind just would not let up for us and it was still howling when we got to the dam. In spite of the wind we found not one but a pair of Bald Eagles. One was flying over the river and the other was perched and provided us with some very nice scope views and some photo ops as well. It was a great end to a very nice fall day. We just wished it hadn’t have been so windy. We managed to find 61 species of birds in the howling winds. Not to shabby and all participants should give them selves a pat on the back for hanging tough an a very windy and chilly day. I hope to see everybody on future trips.

 

Bird List

 

Greater White-fronted Goose

Snow Goose

Mallard                                         (2)

Mottled Duck                               (2)

Northern Shoveler                        (1)

Green-winged Teal

Gadwall                                       (3)

American White Pelican               (2)

Brown Pelican

Cormorant sp.                             (1)

Great Blue Heron                        (3)

Great Egret                                 (4)

Snowy Egret                               (2)

Laughing Gull                              (3)

Royal Tern                               (1)

Killdeer                                      (1)

Yellowlegs sp.                            (3)

Sandhill Crane                            (4)

American Coot

Common Moorhen                     (1)

Bald Eagle                                (3)

White-tailed Kite                        (1)
Northern Harrier
Osprey                                      (1)

Sharp-shinned Hawk                 (1)

Red-tailed Hawk                       (2)
“Krider’s” Red-tailed Hawk      (1-Juv.)

White-tailed Hawk                    (2)

Red-shouldered Hawk              (1)

American Kestrel                      (2)

Crested Caracara                     (5)

Turkey Vulture

Black Vulture

Belted Kingfisher                      (2)

Downy Woodpecker                (2)

Red-bellied Woodpecker         (3)

Inca Dove                                (1)

Mourning Dove                        (1)

Eastern Phoebe                        (3)

Empidonax sp.                         (1)

Loggerhead Shrike                   (1)

Blue Jay                                   (H)

American Crow                       (H)

Ruby-crowned Kinglet             (5)

Golden-crowned Kinglet      (2)

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher             (4)

Carolina Chickadee                 (5)

Tufted Titmouse                      (2)

American Pipit

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler

House Wren                           (H)

Carolina Wren                        (H)

Sedge Wren                           (H)

White-crowned Sparrow        (H)

Savannah Sparrow                 (H)

Northern Cardinal                  (H)

Meadowlark sp.                     (5)

Common Grackle
Brewer’s Blackbird                (2)

American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin                          (3)

 

Total: 61

     
Last Updated ( Monday, 24 November 2008 21:42 )
 
Galveston Island PDF Print E-mail
Written by Adam Wood   
Saturday, 13 September 2008 00:00

October 13, 2007

Three participants came out and joined me for a nice day of birding on the west end of Galveston Island and at Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge. It was a fairly slow day of birding but the gorgeous weather more then made up for the lack of migrant passerines.

Last Updated ( Monday, 17 November 2008 01:17 )
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Navasota Bottoms and Washington-on-the-Brazos PDF Print E-mail
Written by Adam Wood   
Saturday, 31 May 2008 00:00

May 31, 2008

Thirteen participants braved the heat to go searching for nesting Swainson's Warblers and other birds with Darrell Vollert in the Navasota Bottoms. Fortunately, the early part of the morning was pleasant I believe only in the low 70's compared to the high 70's like the days before the trip but that did not make the mid morning or early afternoon any cooler. The morning was spent birding a piece of private property that Darrell had access to in the Navasota Bottom-lands that he has consistently found nesting Swainson's Warblers in. 

Last Updated ( Monday, 27 October 2008 19:19 )
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