Month: April 2007

  • Boom-Stomp; Strut-Rustle

    Prairie Chickens and Wild Turkeys began their displays the middle of April; and several Audubon members were privileged to see the Attwater’s Prairie Chickens at the Abilene Zoo (above). Attwater’s are endangered because they are loosing their habitat. Read more about the Abilene Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Reintroduction Program at the Zoo’s website and for a […]

  • April 13, 2007 – DAFB, Cedar Gap Farm, and Sweetwater

    Dyess Air Force Base There’s a nice mix of lingering winter birds, spring migrants, and resident birds. Best bird(s) of the day: Green Heron, 1: FOS Chimney Swifts: 2, FOS Complete List (most seen around Totten Pond): Blue-winged Teal, 17 Green Heron, 1 Turkey Vulture, 1 Cooper’s Hawk, 1 Swainson’s Hawk, 1 Red-tailed Hawk, 1 […]

  • April 12, 2007 – Lake Kirby

    Highlights only: American White Pelicans, 50+ Forester’s Terns Willets Baird’s Sandpiper Sightings: LBlack

  • April 12, 2007 – DAFB

    Complete list: Blue-winged Teal, 5 Ruddy Duck, 5 Wild Turkey, 2 Great Blue Heron, 1 Turkey Vulture, 2 Swainson’s Hawk, 1 Killdeer, 2 White-winged Dove, 3 Mourning Dove, 22 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 29 Blue Jay, 1 Cliff Swallow, 75+ Black-crested Titmouse, 6 Bewick’s Wren, 3 Eastern Bluebird, 1 American Robin, 21 Northern Mockingbird, 3 Eurasian Starling, […]

  • April 10, 2007 – DAFB

    A complete list will be posted later, but for those wanting to know highlights of what flew in this day: Western Kingbird, 1: FOS Grasshopper Sparrow, several: FOS Yellow-headed Blackbird, 1: FOS Bullock’s Oriole, 1: FOS Sightings by KWalton, LgPacker

  • April 6, 2007 – Lake Kirby

    This is a truncated list; only highlights are included. Best bird(s) of the day: Tree Swallow Others: Common Loon, 1 Pied-billed Grebe, 1 Great Egret, 1 American Coot, still fairly numerous, 50+ Black-necked Stilt, 1 Spotted Sandpiper, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Franklin’s Gull, 1 Bonaparte’s Gull, 1 Ring-billed Gull, 6 Forster’s Tern, 4 Tree Swallow, […]

  • April 5, 2007 – DAFB

    Complete List: Blue-winged Teal, 10 Wild Turkey, 2 Northern Bobwhite, 6 Great Blue Heron, 1 Swainson’s Hawk, 1 Red-tailed Hawk, 1 Killdeer, 2 Mourning Dove, 33 Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 2 Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 2 Eastern Phoebe, 2 Ash-throated Flycatcher, 3 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 14 Chihuahuan Raven, 2 Black-crested Titmouse, 4 Bewick’s Wren, 4 Marsh Wren, 1 singing Eastern […]

  • Another Lake Kirby Adventure

    The phone rang late Friday evening; my friend Lorie was looking at Tree Swallows (above) out at Lake Kirby. Friday’s cold front had stalled the migrating swallows and several hundred were flying around barely inches from the water’s surface. Needing my birder’s fix for the day, I grabbed the camera and ran (OK, drove) out […]