Thank you everyone for joining us on our February Member Field Trip on Saturday, February 23, 2019.
Click here to see a photo gallery of the event.
Keith Weiss Park is beautiful!! Please add your photos to the album if you would like. The woods were certainly busy with titmice, cardinals, Pine Warblers, kinglets and more. The two detention ponds gave us great views of beaver activity, nutrias, an Osprey, egrets and cormorants and a beautiful Anhinga.
This park should be a destination for all birdwatchers in the Houston area. We only managed to cover 2 ½ of the many miles of trails available. Most of the trails were paved and it looks like there a plans to put in additional trails to the back detention pond.
We will certainly be back.
Keith Weiss Park, Houston US-TX (29.8895,-95.3529), Harris, Texas, US
Feb 23, 2019 7:32 AM - 10:10 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.595 mile(s)
34 species
Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) 2
Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) 2
White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) 1
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) 20
Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) 1
Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) 3
Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 5
Great Egret (Ardea alba) 2
Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) 4
Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea) 1
White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) 33
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) 1
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus) 1
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 2
Downy Woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) 1
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 2
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 4
Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 3
Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 1
Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris) 1
Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) 2
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 25
Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) 1
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 1
American Pipit (Anthus rubescens) 35
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) 8
White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) 2
Orange-crowned Warbler (Oreothlypis celata) 2
Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) 4
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 6
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S53051618
