Best bird(s) of the day: High number of Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, and Western Kingbirds. The fledglings are sitting around in trees and utility wires waiting to be fed by parents. Grasshopper Sparrow, juvenile Complete List: Black-bellied Whistling Duck, 2 Mallard, 4 Wild Turkey, 2 Northern Bobwhite, 6 Great Blue Heron, 1 Green Heron, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Black-capped Vireo, 1 Indigo Bunting, 1 Painted Bunting, 9 and most of them males! Complete List: Black Vulture, 3 Turkey Vulture, 16 Mississippi Kite, 2 Mourning Dove, 11 Black-chinned Hummingbird, 5. It’s hard to estimate how many are actually present. The most hummingbirds seen at the same time was five. […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Orchard Oriole, not because it’s all that great but because first time to document it on base was Sunday, June 10, 2007. Complete List: Northern Bobwhite, 5 Green Heron, 1 Mississippi Kite, 3 Swainson’s Hawk, 2 (plus two little white fuzzy heads were seen above the rim of the nest) […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Black-capped Vireo, 1 (heard only) List of birds seen: Wild Turkey, 4 (3 toms; 1 hen) Northern Bobwhite, 1 (heard) Turkey Vulture, 11 Mississippi Kite, 2 Mourning Dove, 12 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird, 6 Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 1 Ash-throated Flycatcher, 6 Western Kingbird, 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 2 Black-capped Vireo, 1 […]