September 8, 2007-Waste Water


Highlights:

  • The ducks are here!!
  • Cinnamon Teal, still in eclipsed plumage
  • Pied-billed Grebe, several juveniles with contrasting streaking on the face and neck
  • Little Blue Heron, 1 in a flooded field close to Sea Bee Park
  • Cattle Egret, several hundred
  • White-faced Ibis, numerous! (over 50)
  • Willet, 1

Complete List from Waste Water Treatment Plant:

  • Black-bellied Whistling Duck, 29
  • Gadwall, 8
  • Mallard, 2
  • Blue-winged Teal, 150
  • Northern Shoveler, 10
  • Green-winged Teal, 26
  • Northern Bobwhite, 1
  • Pied-billed Grebe, 23
  • Cattle Egret, 250
  • Green Heron, 1
  • White-faced Ibis, 52
  • Turkey Vulture, 22
  • Common Moorhen, 5
  • American Coot, 44
  • Killdeer, 6
  • Black-necked Stilt, 26
  • American Avocet, 6
  • Spotted Sandpiper, 1
  • Greater Yellowlegs, 35
  • Willet, 1
  • Lesser Yellowlegs, 8
  • Long-billed Dowitcher, 36
  • Wilson’s Phalarope, 28
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 6
  • Blue Jay, 2
  • Cave Swallow, 2
  • Barn Swallow, 32
  • Northern Mockingbird, 5
  • Northern Cardinal, 1
  • Pyrrhuloxia, 1
  • Dickcissel, 8
  • Red-winged Blackbird, 72
  • Great-tailed Grackle, 18
  • Brown-headed Cowbird, 3

Sea Bee Park

  • Blue-winged Teal, 125
  • Great Egret, 5
  • Little Blue Heron, 1
  • Cattle Egret, 6
  • Green Heron, 1
  • American Coot, 6
  • Great-tailed Grackle, 8

Sightings by L. Black, K. Hampton, LgPacker