Marlene's 2025 Birding List


 Marlene's Birding List for 2025

Marlene at The Ledges

(If the Bird's Name is in gray, click to see a photo. )

March 22, 2025

·      8th Street/Sportsman Rd

o   Great egret

o   Snowy egret

o   White ibis

o   Redhead

o   Blacknecked stilts

o   Great blue heron

o   Dowitchers 

o   Least sandpiper 

o   Fulvous whistling duck

o   Blue winged teal

o   Roseate spoonbills 

o   Gadwalls 

o   Glossy ibis

o   Brown pelican 

o   Boat-tailed grackles

o   Tri-colored heron

o   Mallard

o   Yellow crowned night heron, adult & juvenile 

o   Willets 

o   Laughing gulls 

o   Rock dove 

o   Cormorant 

 

·      Lafitte’s Cove Nature Preserve 

o   Black bellied whistling duck

o   Yellowlegs

o   Little Blue Heron

o   Northern shovelers 

o   Purple martin

 

March 17, 2025

·      Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center in Port Aransas

o   Great-tailed grackle

o   Common gallinules 

o   White ibis

o   Blue-winged teal

o   Green-winged teal

o   Black-necked stilt

o   Barn Swallow

o   Laughing gull

o   Ring-billed gull

o   Northern shovelers 

o   White pelican

o   Tricolored heron

o   Reddish egret, white morph

o   American avocet

o   Herring gull

o   American coot

o   Snowy egret

o   Redheads 

o   Great egret

o   Red-winged blackbird

o   Long-billed Dowitchers

o   Kildeer 

o   Great blue heron 

o   Yellow rumped warbler

o   Nashville warbler 

o   Eurasian collared dove

 

·      Aransas Pass Ferry

o   Neotropical cormorants

o   Brown pelican

o   Double-crested cormorants 

o   Laughing gulls

 

·      Redfish Bay

o   Laughing gulls

o   Great egret

o   Little blue heron

o   Ring-billed gull

o   Great blue heron

o   Herring gull

o   Common grackle

o   Northern harrier

o   Osprey

o   (Dolphin)

 

·      Indian Point County Park

o   Reddish egret

o   Great blue heron

o   White ibis

o   Caspian tern

o   Laughing gulls 

o   Forster’s tern

o   Snowy egret

o   Short-billed Dowitchers

o   Sanderling

o   Long-billed Dowitchers 

o   Great tailed grackle

o   Long-billed curlew

o   Black-necked stilt

o   Ruddy turnstone

o   Least sandpiper

o   Willet

o   Tricolored heron 

 

March 15, 2025

·       Along HWY 35 to Aransas NWR

o   Black vultures 

 

·       Rail Trail

o   Neotropic cormorant 

 

·       Heron Flats

o   Great egret

o   Snowy egret

o   White Ibis

o   Great blue heron 

o   Whooping crane 

 

·       Songbird Loop (main road by)

o   Whooping cranes 

o   Ring-billed gulls 

 

·       Jones Lake

o   Yellowlegs

o   Green Wing Teal

o   Blue Wing Teal

o   Killdeer

 

·       Observation Tower & boardwalk 

o   Great egret

o   Great blue heron

o   Cormorant

o   Northern harrier

o   Little blue heron

o   Osprey

 

·       Auto Tour

o   Meadowlark 

o   Turkey vultures

 

·       Other animals

·       Songbird Trail

o   Javelina

o   Monarch Butterfly 

o   Dragonfly 

 

·       Jones Lake

o   Alligators 

March 14, 2025

·      Fulton Beach Rd

o   Laughing gull

o   Great blue heron

o   Snowy egret

o   Ring billed gull

o   Yellow Legs

 

·      Bent Oaks Rookery Park

o   Great blue heron 

o   Great egret

o   Mourning dove 

o   Eurasian Collared dove

o   Kestrel

 

·      Water Street

o   Royal tern

o   Sanderling

o  Forster's Tern

o   Reddish egret

 

·      S Hwy 35

o   Willets 

o   Tricolored heron 


March 13, 2025

Rockport/Fulton Texas

·      Eighth Street:

o   Whooping cranes

o   Sandhill cranes

o   Roseate spoonbills 

o   Black bellied whistling ducks

o   Great egret

o   Snowy egret

o   Osprey 

o   Great blue heron

 

·      In water, along shoreline:

o   White pelican

o   Laughing gulls

o   Tricolored heron

 

·      Linda Castro:

o   Mockingbirds

o   Yellow rumped warbler

o   Turkey vulture 

o   Unidentified hawk

o   House sparrow (heard, not seen)

o   Cardinals


February 28, 2025

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February 28, 2025

 

·       8 1/2 Mile Rd

o   Great egret

o   Northern shoveler

o   Mallard

o   Boat tailed grackle

o   Starling

o   Pectoral sandpiper

 

·       Sportsman Rd

o   Osprey

o   Kestrel

o   Mockingbird 

o   Tricolored heron

o   White ibis

 

·       Jean Lafitte’s Nature Preserve

o   Yellow rumpled warbler

o   Pied billed grebe

o   House finch

o   American coot

o   Common gallinule 


February 25, 2025

  • 7 ½ Mile Road Ponds - Galveston

    • Northern Pintails

February 3, 2025

  • Texas City Dike

o   Laughing Gull

o   Boat-tailed Grackle

o   White Pelican

o   Herring Gull

o   Royal Tern

o   Common Loon

o   Crested Cara Cara

o   Pied-Billed Grebe

o   Neotropic Cormorant

o   Ring-Billed Gulls


 

January 24, 2025

·      Sportsman’s Road

o   Kestrel

o   White Egret

o   Yellow-Rumped Warbler

o   Little Blue

o   Snowy Egret

o   Tri-color Heron

o   Roseate Spoonbill

o   Osprey

o   Belted Kingfisher

o   White Ibis

o   Northern Shoveler

o   Unidentified Shore Birds out on a Mud Flat

 

·      Lafiite’s Cove Nature Preserve

o   Yellow-Rumped Warbler

o   Mockingbird

o   Downy Woodpecker

o   American Wigeon

o   Cormorants

o   Brown Pelican

o   Pied-Billed Grebe

o   Northern Shoveler

o   Gadwall

o   Hermit Thrush (heard by the Merlin App)

 

·      Galveston Island State Park

o   Great Blue Heron

o   Black-crowned Night Heron

o   Laughing Gull

o   Snowy Egret

o   Brown Pelican

o   Willet

 

·      Along San Luis Pass Road near Jamaica Beach

o   Sandhill Crane

 

·      San Luis Pass

o   American Avocet

o   American Oystercatcher

o   Yellow Legs

o   White Morph of a Reddish Egret

o   Laughing Gull

o   Ring-Billed Gull

o   Willet

o   Black-Bellied Plover

o   Semi-Palmated Plover

1 comment:

  1. I really enjoyed our birding visit on the 28th!

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