Bird List - Inner Shore of Padre Island
March 20, 2010
Had an exciting morning in Texas: fifteen new-to-me bird species seen this morning on the lagoon/intracoastal waterway side of Padre Island across the bridge from Corpus Christi:
Laughing Gull
- Long-billed Curlew
- Marbled Godwit
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Brown Pelican
- Willet
- Tern (Royal or Caspian, unsure)
- Laughing Gull
- Reddish Egret, white-morph
- White Ibis
- Snowy Egret
- Osprey
- American White Pelican
- Little Blue Heron
- Roseate Spoonbill
- American Oystercatcher
Also seen: Great blue heron, great egret, ring-billed gull, double-crested cormorant, northern mockingbird, great-tailed grackle, song sparrow.