2018 Spring Migration at High Island - Day 2

The second day of my birding at High Island turned out to be productive for Warblers. I just had half a day for birding since I had to head home early in the afternoon. Hence decided to cover the sites near the audubon centers.

In the morning I visited Boy Scouts wood Sanctuary to see if there were any new birds which flew overnight but I did not see anything new but I did get to see some birds which I missed on the previous day and at South Padre Island.

In the morning at the bird sanctuary we continued to see huge number of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, there were few Prothonotary Warblers and good number of Painted and Indigo Buntings. There were still lot of Tennesse Warblers, Northern Parula and Orioles(Orchard and Baltimore).

Blackburnian Warbler

Tennesse Warbler

Northern Parula

Orchard Oriole

Orchard Oriole

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Summer Tanager

And the Prothonotary pond White Ibis, Green Heron, Little-blue Heron and Yellow-crowned Night Heron. The other birds that i saw during the day were Eastern-wood Pewee, Cerulean Warbler and a lone Worm-eating Warbler.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Painted Bunting

Baltimore Oriole

Easternwood Pewee

Hooded Warbler

After this I did a quick visit to Hooks Woods Sanctuary. It was good visit where I got to see my second Black-billed Cuckoo. There was a very co-operating Hooded Warbler and couple of Worm-eating warblers flying around. I did get to see Great-crested Flycatcher, Summer Tanagers and Black and White Warbler.

Summer Tanager

Blue-winged Warbler

Hooded Warbler

Black and White Warbler

Hooded Warbler

Great-crested Flycatcher

Worm-eating Warbler

Black-billed Cuckoo

In the afternoon before I left for the day I decided to spend sometime at Smith Oaks Sanctuary. The visit was good. I got to see Kentucky Warbler, I had seen this bird couple of years back but it was from very far. But this time it was a very good where the bird was very close trying to eat some food. Here we saw Blue Grosbeak, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Painted Bunting and Indigo Bunting. I also got to see Cerulean Warbler which was very good. Other Warblers I got to see were Worm-eating Warbler, Tennesse Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Prothonotary Warbler and Tennesse Warblers.  We also got to see both Summer and Scarlet Tanagers. And in the Rookery I got see some alligators along with the breeding Egrets, Herons and Spoobills.

Blue Grosbeak

Roseatte Spoonbill

Blue Grosbeak

Black-throated Green Warbler

Veery

Kentucky Warbler

Prothonotary Warbler

Worm-eating Warbler

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Grey Catbird

Tennesse Warbler

Hermit Thrush

Black-billed Cuckoo

Summer Tanager

Easternwood Pewee

Summer Tanager

Cerulean Warbler

Scarlet Tanager

Blackburnian Warbler

After great couple of days of birding headed back home. Can't wait to come back to this place again :-)

ebird:
Boy Scout Wood Sanctuary : https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S44902478
Smith Oaks Sanctuary : https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S44902669

Birds seen during the day :

1	Acadian Flycatcher
2	American Coot
3	American Redstart
4	Baltimore Oriole
5	Barn Swallow
6	Black Vulture
7	Black-and-white Warbler
8	Black-billed Cuckoo
9	Blackburnian Warbler
10	Blackpoll Warbler
11	Black-throated Green Warbler
12	Blue Grosbeak
13	Blue Jay
14	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
15	Blue-headed Vireo
16	Blue-winged Warbler
17	Carolina Chickadee
18	Carolina Wren
19	Cedar Wawing
20	Cerulean Warbler
21	Chestnut-sided Warbler
22	Common Gallinule
23	Common Yellowthroat
24	Eastern Wood-Pewee
25	Eurasian Collared-Dove
26	Gray Catbird
27	Gray-cheeked Thrush
28	Great Blue Heron
29	Great Crested Flycatcher
30	Great Egret
31	Green Heron
32	Hermit Thrush
33	Hooded Warbler
34	Indigo Bunting
35	Kentucky Warbler
36	Little Blue Heron
37	Louisiana Waterthrush
38	Nashville Warbler
39	Northern Cardinal
40	Northern Mockingbird
41	Northern Parula
42	Northern Waterthrush
43	Orange-crowned Warbler
44	Orchard Oriole
45	Ovenbird
46	Painted Bunting
47	Prothonotary Warbler
48	Purple Gallinule
49	Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
50	Roseate Spoonbill
51	Rose-breasted Grosbeak
52	Ruby-throated Hummingbird
53	Scarlet Tanager
54	Snowy Egret
55	Summer Tanager
56	Swainson's Thrush
57	Tennessee Warbler
58	Tricolored Heron
59	Tufted Titmouse
60	Turkey Vulture
61	Veery
62	Western Kingbird
63	White Ibis
64	White-eyed Vireo
65	White-winged Dove
66	Wood Thrush
67	Worm-eating Warbler
68	Yellow-billed Cuckoo
69	Yellow-throated Vireo