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August 31, 2007 – DAFB
Highlights of this morning: Eastern Bluebirds, 15 clustered around a fruiting vine Wilson’s Warbler, 1 male Complete List: Mallard, 2 Wild Turkey, 25 Great Blue Heron, 1 Great Egret, 5 overhead Green Heron, 3 Swainson’s Hawk, 1 juvenile Killdeer, 4 Mourning Dove, 17 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird, 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 2 […]
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August 30, 2007 – DAFB
Highlights of this morning: Upland Sandpiper, 2 heard overhead Least Flycatcher, 1 Eastern Kingbird, 1 Loggerhead Shrike: 1, impaling a cricket for later consumption Orange-crowned Warbler, 2 Nashville Warbler, 1 Yellow Warbler, 5 Orchard Oriole, 3 Complete List: Wild Turkey, 6 Northern Bobwhite, 12 Great Blue Heron, 1 Great Egret, 6 flying overhead Green Heron, […]
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August 29, 2007-DAFB
Best bird(s) of the morning: Upland Sandpiper, 16 Long-billed Curlew, 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 1 juvenile, in my hand (picture coming soon) Grasshopper Sparrow, 3 Complete List: Northern Bobwhite, 16 Green Heron, 2 Swainson’s Hawk, 3 Killdeer, 6 Upland Sandpiper, 16 Long-billed Curlew, 1 Mourning Dove, 44 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 1 Common Nighthawk, 3 Western Kingbird, 2 […]
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August 28, 2007-DAFB
Best bird(s) of the morning: Upland Sandpiper, 11; 6 flying overhead and 5 foraging in a large field Long-billed Curlew, 1 Empidonax, 1 Yellow Warbler, 2 Complete List: (Seeing some fall migrants and some familiar breeding birds) Northern Bobwhite, 22 (yep, came upon a covey) Mississippi Kite, 1 Swainson’s Hawk, 3 Upland Sandpiper, 11 Long-billed […]
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Rufous in the Big Country
Rufous Hummingbirds have hit the Big Country! Member Jay Capra photographed this beautiful male the first week of August at a private residence in the Buffalo Gap area. He says; “I was MOST excited about the hummer, having only seen a Rufous on our place once before and never 2 days in a row. He […]
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August 27, 2007-DAFB
Best bird(s) of the morning: Spotted Sandpiper, 1 Long-billed Curlew, 10 flying overhead Yellow Warbler, 2 Wave after wave of Scissor-tailed Flycatchers flying south as dawn broke. By the time the sun rose I had counted over 200. Complete List: Wild Turkey, 18 Green Heron, 5 Turkey Vulture, 1 Mississippi Kite: 1, juvenile. Didn’t find […]
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August 26, 2007-Area Sightings
Here are a few sightings from: Lake Ft Phantom Hill: Willet – 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 6 Greater Yellowlegs, 3 Least Sandpiper, 6 Western Sandpiper, 5 Black Tern, 3 Cattle Egret, 300 + Snowy Egret, 10 Great Egret, 1 Abilene State Park: Cave Swallow, 25 Summer Tanager, 1 Lake Kirby, August 25: Lots of Snowy and […]
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August 6, 2007 – Waste Water
Best bird(s) Pied-billed Grebe next to a nest that contained one egg, and other Pied-billeds with young Willet, 1 Solitary Sandpiper, 1 Baird’s Sandpiper, 2* Olive-sided Flycatcher, 1 And the same shorebird assortment as August 1st. Complete List: Black-bellied Whistling Duck, 22 Blue-winged Teal, 16 Green-winged Teal, 4 Northern Bobwhite, 2 (female seen crossing the […]
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August Collage, 2007
The first week of August brought several neat photos my way that I wanted to share with everyone. John English went to Colorado and took pictures along steep, winding, narrow mining trails: Larry Millar shares his photos of a Least Bittern taken at Lake Kirby in June: Bill Kerr from Northern Ireland shares photos of […]
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August 3, 2007 – DAFB
Best bird(s) of the morning: Bell’s Vireo, 1 still singing as if on territory. Complete List: Northern Bobwhite, 1 Green Heron, 3 Mississippi Kite, 8 (2 of which were fledglings) Swainson’s Hawk, 1 (juvenile; didn’t see parents) Rock Pigeon, 1 Mourning Dove, 15 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 2 Greater Roadrunner, 1 Common Nighthawk, 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird, 3 […]