Date:         Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:23:22 -0400
Reply-To:     "R. D. Wallace" <chnuts@MSN.COM>
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From:         "R. D. Wallace" <chnuts@MSN.COM>
Subject:      Fw: [TEXBIRDS] UTC - 11 Aug 2005 shorebirds,
              Buff-breasted  Sdpprs, Am Golden Plover, etc.
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From: Jack Dozier<mailto:jackdozier@earthlink.net> 
To: RD Wallace<mailto:chnuts@msn.com> ; DOROTHY ROBBINS<mailto:dotrobbins@juno.com> ; John Mintermister<mailto:JHHV2BIRD@aol.com> 
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:07 AM
Subject: Fwd: [TEXBIRDS] UTC - 11 Aug 2005 shorebirds, Buff-breasted Sdpprs, Am Golden Plover, etc.


Getting serious here with (400) Buffies.   JD



>Date:         Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:54:18 -0500
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>Subject: [TEXBIRDS] UTC - 11 Aug 2005 shorebirds, Buff-breasted Sdpprs, Am 
>Golden Plover, etc.
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>
>Hi there,
>
>Spent the day with Kinjo Yonemoto and 6 birders from Japan who came here
>specifically for shorebirding.
>
>Highlights were 400 Buff-breasted Sandpipers and 300 Pectoral Sandpipers at
>Anahuac East Tract in a wet (not flooded) field.  All in all, we had 31 

>species of
>shorebirds today.
>
>B = Bolivar; AE = Anahuac East tract
>
>B-B PLOVER    B=40, AE = 10
>AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER AE = 1; ADULT UNDERGOING BODY MOLT
>SNOWY PLOVER B=70
>SEMIPALM PLOVER B=70, AE =10
>PIPING PLOVER B=100
>KILLDEER 60
>A OYSTERCATCHER B=10
>BN STILT 50
>AM AVOCET B=40
>GR YELLOWLEGS 65
>LESSER YELLOWLEGS 35
>SOLITARY SDPPR B=1
>WILLET B=100
>SPOTTED SDPPR B=1
>UPLAND SDPPR AE=3, SAME FIELD AS THE BUFF-BRSTD SDPPRS
>LONG-BILLED CURLEW 50
>M GODWIT B=40
>R TURNSOTNE B=30
>RED KNOT B=3
>SANDERLING B= 100
>SEMIPALMATED SDPPR B=25 (10 JUVENILES)
>WESTERN SDPPR B=4000 (10 JUV)
>LEAST SDPPR B=150; AE=100 (1JUV)
>PECTORAL SDPPR AE=300 ADULTS
>DUNLIN B=1, CONTINUING ADULT SUMMERER
>STILT SDPPR B=4, AE=2
>BUFF-BRSTD SDPPR AE=400
>SH-B DOWITCHER B=450
>LB DOWITCHER AE=5
>WILSON'S PHALAROPE AE =1
>
>also, we had 2 Least Grebes continuing at Tyrell Park in Beaumont.
>
>Good birding
>Cin-Ty
>houston
>
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Jack Dozier
Alligator Pt., FL
jackdozier@earthlink.net<mailto:jackdozier@earthlink.net>