As already stated my current strategy (as they say Stateside) is to be back in Blighty for migration. Trouble is you can't foresee the weather or bird movements and you definitely can't be in two places at one time. I got stung badly April 1st 2005 when the joke was on me as a BELTED KINGFISHER turned up in Staffs at the aptly named Tixall! I was watching one at Anahuac when I got the MEGA alert on my phone!!! I've got a long memory. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't swap my Birding adventures for anything but a little planning can sometimes help. Sometimes.
I've been following the Texas migration on eBird as we don't seem to have much/any at the moment?
So, another couple of examples...
I still need Cape May Warbler for my Texas list. It's a scarce migrant throughout the State as the majority pass through Florida further East. It's also a late migrant usually passing in late April/early May hence the reason I haven't connected. Couple this with it being my number 1 British tick, I have a special affinity with this species. The pictures and dates give mixed feelings. I might have to re-consider. Only joking...I think?
Secondly, here's a day list from Galveston Island...yes ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE SPECIES!!!
Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:00 AM
9
|
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
|
2
|
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
|
1
|
Mallard
|
6
|
Mottled Duck
|
15
|
Blue-winged Teal
|
11
|
Redhead
in pond at
lafittes
|
25
|
Common Loon
|
6
|
Pied-billed Grebe
|
4
|
Neotropic Cormorant
|
26
|
Double-crested Cormorant
|
25
|
Brown Pelican
|
2
|
Great Blue Heron
|
10
|
Great Egret
|
15
|
Snowy Egret
|
12
|
Tricolored Heron
|
3
|
Reddish Egret
|
100
|
Cattle Egret
|
5
|
Green Heron
|
7
|
Black-crowned Night-Heron
|
9
|
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
|
5
|
White Ibis
|
1
|
Roseate Spoonbill
|
1
|
Osprey
|
4
|
White-tailed Kite
|
1
|
Swallow-tailed Kite
|
1
|
Cooper's Hawk
|
7
|
Clapper Rail
|
1
|
Sora
|
2
|
Common Gallinule
|
20
|
American Coot
|
35
|
Black-necked Stilt
|
450
|
American Avocet
|
7
|
American Oystercatcher
|
25
|
Black-bellied Plover
|
2
|
American Golden-Plover
|
4
|
Snowy Plover
|
4
|
Wilson's Plover
|
25
|
Semipalmated Plover
|
2
|
Piping Plover
|
15
|
Killdeer
|
1
|
Spotted Sandpiper
|
3
|
Solitary Sandpiper
|
5
|
Greater Yellowlegs
|
45
|
Willet
|
10
|
Lesser Yellowlegs
|
19
|
Whimbrel
|
25
|
Marbled Godwit
|
75
|
Ruddy Turnstone
|
6
|
Stilt Sandpiper
|
15
|
Sanderling
|
25
|
Dunlin
|
5
|
Least Sandpiper
|
1
|
White-rumped Sandpiper
|
1
|
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
|
1
|
Pectoral Sandpiper
|
2
|
Semipalmated Sandpiper
|
35
|
Western Sandpiper
|
200
|
Short-billed Dowitcher
|
25
|
Long-billed Dowitcher
|
250
|
Laughing Gull
|
2
|
Franklin's Gull
|
25
|
Ring-billed Gull
|
5
|
Herring Gull
|
45
|
Least Tern
|
2
|
Gull-billed Tern
|
5
|
Caspian Tern
|
10
|
Black Tern
|
1
|
Common Tern
|
45
|
Forster's Tern
|
35
|
Royal Tern
|
35
|
Sandwich Tern
|
100
|
Black Skimmer
|
X
|
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
|
3
|
Eurasian Collared-Dove
|
5
|
White-winged Dove
|
11
|
Mourning Dove
|
1
|
Black-billed Cuckoo
|
3
|
Common Nighthawk
|
4
|
Chimney Swift
|
7
|
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
|
2
|
Belted Kingfisher
|
3
|
Eastern Wood-Pewee
|
1
|
Acadian Flycatcher
|
1
|
Least Flycatcher
|
17
|
Eastern Kingbird
|
2
|
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
|
4
|
Loggerhead Shrike
|
2
|
White-eyed Vireo
|
2
|
Yellow-throated Vireo
|
1
|
Warbling Vireo
|
3
|
Red-eyed Vireo
|
2
|
Blue Jay
|
5
|
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
|
35
|
Purple Martin
|
75
|
Barn Swallow
|
X
|
Cliff Swallow
|
X
|
Cave Swallow
|
5
|
Marsh Wren
|
3
|
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
|
2
|
Gray-cheeked Thrush
|
5
|
Swainson's Thrush
|
15
|
Wood Thrush
|
12
|
Gray Catbird
|
2
|
Brown Thrasher
|
8
|
Northern Mockingbird
|
100
|
European Starling
|
3
|
Ovenbird
|
1
|
Worm-eating Warbler
|
2
|
Louisiana Waterthrush
|
3
|
Northern Waterthrush
|
1
|
Golden-winged Warbler
|
4
|
Blue-winged Warbler
|
9
|
Black-and-white Warbler
|
2
|
Prothonotary Warbler
|
5
|
Tennessee Warbler
|
11
|
Kentucky Warbler
|
7
|
Common Yellowthroat
|
23
|
Hooded Warbler
|
3
|
American Redstart
|
1
|
Bay-breasted Warbler
|
1
|
Blackburnian Warbler
|
12
|
Yellow Warbler
2 seen at ft
travis, at least 10 in corps woods had 6 present in one flock.
|
6
|
Chestnut-sided Warbler
|
3
|
Palm Warbler
|
1
|
Yellow-rumped Warbler
|
1
|
Wilson's Warbler
|
1
|
Yellow-breasted Chat
|
2
|
Lark Sparrow
|
2
|
Lincoln's Sparrow
|
2
|
Swamp Sparrow
|
15
|
Summer Tanager
|
20
|
Scarlet Tanager
|
3
|
Northern Cardinal
|
17
|
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
|
20
|
Blue Grosbeak
|
350
|
Indigo Bunting
|
11
|
Painted Bunting
|
9
|
Dickcissel
|
7
|
Bobolink
|
35
|
Red-winged Blackbird
|
11
|
Eastern Meadowlark
|
10
|
Common Grackle
|
45
|
Great-tailed Grackle
|
1
|
Bronzed Cowbird
|
25
|
Brown-headed Cowbird
|
25
|
Orchard Oriole
|
10
|
Baltimore Oriole
|
1
|
House Finch
|
X
|
House Sparrow
|
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