I’m Baaaaaaack!

30. December 2008 by Capt. Tommy.

Greetings to all and happy new year!

My internet has been down for a week and we have been birding our butts off. Yesterday we had the Christmas Bird Count crew on board and we scraped up 91 species unofficially.

Speaking of scraping, these poor whoopers  are really working hard for their food. The drought has our crab crop way down. We are however seeing some crabs being eaten and getting good looks at cranes on each trip. The whoopers are moving alot and going into each others territories.

The red-breasted mergansers and gadwalls have finally arrived en-mass which is good to see, I had seen only one or two mergansers all year and no gadwalls before yesterday. I guess the cold front that arrived sunday evening finnaly brought them in.

We are consistantly picking up semi-palmated and piping plovers which is always fun and the white great blue heron has been very consistant in Carlos Bay. He has been pretty far out there some days but you can get a pretty good look with the Nikon spotting scopes.

Which reminds me! Nikon just sent me their new Monacrch X Binos. All I can say is WOW!  This product is incredible! They are 8.5 X 45 and they are super bright and very clear and they will sell between $600 and $700 when they come out in February. They are sure to be a winner for Nikon and Rockport Adventures.

Y’all come go birding with us. We have great birds, great food, and great deals at the local hotels. Come on down, warm up, and have some FUN!

Good birding!

Capt Tommy

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