October 7, 2006 – Oakwood & Kirby Lake


Oakwood Trails

Returning Winter Birds:

  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 4
  • Northern Flicker, 2; one Red-shafted, one Yellow-shafted
  • House Wren, 1

Others:

  • Eastern Phoebe, 1
  • Cattle Egret, 8
  • Eastern Bluebird, 2
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 1
  • Medowlark sp., 1

Lake Kirby

Migrants:

  • Orange-crowned Warbler, 2
  • Wilson’s Warbler, 1
  • Spotted Sandpiper, 1
  • Least Sandpiper, 8
  • Osprey, 2
  • Forster’s Tern, 18
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 2
  • Snowy Egret, 9
  • Eastern Phoebe, 1

Returning Winter Birds:

  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Gadwall, 2
  • American Coot, 280
  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • Marsh Wren, 1
  • Lincoln’s Sparrow, 1
  • Wilson’s Snipe, 1
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 1
  • Spotted Towhee, 1
  • American White Pelican, 1
  • American Crow, 4

Others:

  • Common Moorhen, 1 juvenile
  • Great Blue Heron, 4
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 1
  • Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 1
  • Bewick’s Wren, 1
  • Pyrrhuloxia, 1
  • Blue Jay, 1
  • Northern Cardinal, 3
  • Northern Mockingbird, 5
  • House Finch, 1

All sightings by Lorie Black, Kathy Hampton, and Laura Packer