Pre-"Storm" Birding - Black Point / Dump Marsh

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Posted by Trey Mitchell on 21:00:37 08/29/06

Toe called and asked what I thought about Storm Birding. I said "I'm ready to
go".

We checked Cutler Wetland, The Dump, Dump Marsh and Black Point. We saw a good
variety of birds and finished prior to the first major rains.

Pied-billed Grebe
Magnificent Frigatebird
Brown Pelican
Anhinga
Double-crested Cormorant
Green Heron
Little Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Snowy Egret
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Wood Stork
White Ibis
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Turkey Vulture
Black Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Lesser Yellow-Legs
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dowitcher Sp.
Laughing Gull
Royal Tern
Mourning Dove
Eurasian Collard Dove
Common Ground Dove
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Gray Kingbird
Blue Jay
Barn Swallow
Cave Swallow
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Prairie Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Common Grackle

A few photos:

Grasshopper ??? Bright yellow wings with black tips show when it flies...