Had an exciting morning in Texas: fifteen new-to-me bird species seen this morning on the lagoon/intracoastal waterway side of Padre Island across the bridge from Corpus Christi:

• Long-billed Curlew
• Marbled Godwit
• Vermilion Flycatcher
• Brown Pelican
• Willet
• Tern (Royal or Caspian, unsure)
• Laughing Gull
• Reddish Egret, white-morph
• White Ibis
• Snowy Egret
• Osprey
• American White Pelican
• Little Blue Heron
• Roseate Spoonbill
• American Oystercatcher

Also seen: Great blue heron, great egret, ring-billed gull, double-crested cormorant, northern mockingbird, great-tailed grackle, song sparrow.

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