I am spending 10 days in Galveston for our family new year celebration at the new beach house. When not beach-combing or kicking back with a glass of wine, we're birding/bird-watching! For those of you who are interested, I will post a list of birds that we have personally spotted and identified each day. Here goes:

December 31, 2015

- Sanderling

Repeats (seen on a previous day[s] of this trip):

- Brown Pelican

- Neotropic Cormorant

- Willet

- Herring Gull

- American Kestrel

- Boat-tail Grackle

- Rock Pigeon

December 30, 2015

- Canvasback Duck

- Redhead Duck

- American Wigeon

- Gadwell Duck

- Blue-winged Teal Duck

- Cinnamon Teal Duck

- Northern Shoveler

- Black Scoter

- Ring-necked Duck

- Lesser Scaup

- Bufflehead

- Neotropic Cormorant

- Pie-billed Grebe

- Pacific Loon

- White Pelican

- Glossy Ibis

- White-tailed Kite

- Swallow-Tailed Kite

- Red-tailed Hawk

- Crested Caracara

- Merlin

- Killdeer

- Ruddy Turnstone

- American Oystercatcher

- Lesser Yellowlegs

- Spotted Sandpiper

- Herring Gull

- Common Tern

- Belted Kingfisher

- Northern Mockingbird

- European Starling

- Eastern Meadowlark

- Red-winged Blackbird

- Brown-headed Cowbird

Repeats (seen on a previous day[s] of this trip):

- Brown Pelican

- Great Blue Heron

- Snowy Egret

- Great Egret

- White Ibis

- Roseate Spoonbill

- Sandhill Crane

- Osprey

- Northern Harrier

- American Kestrel

- American Coot

- Willet

- Loggerhead Shrike

- Boat-tailed Grackle

December 29, 2015

- Cooper's Hawk

- American Coot

- Little Gull

- Willet

- Cattle Egret

- Sandhill Crane

- Roseate Spoonbill

Repeats (seen on a previous day[s] of this trip):

- Great Blue Heron

- Boneparte's Gull

- American Kestrel

- Boat-tail Grackle

- Loggerhead Shrike

- Brown Pelican

- Least Sandpiper

December 28, 2015

- Boat-tail Grackle

- Brown Pelican

- American Kestrel

- Northern Harrier

- Osprey

- Least Sandpiper

- Bonaparte's Gull

- Lesser Black-backed Gull

- Loggerhead Shrike

- Rock Pigeon

- White Ibis

- Great Egret

- Snowy Egret

- Great Blue Heron