November 2, 2007 – DAFB


Best bird(s) of the morning:

  • wasn’t a bird, it was a HUGE dark bobcat slinking up the creek bank and disappearing into the mesquite shrub. Lynn and I both had cameras; but it happened so quick, we only had time to gawk at it.

Complete List:

  • Wild Turkey – 19
  • Northern Bobwhite – 23
  • Double-crested Cormorant – 5
  • Northern Harrier – 3
  • Cooper’s Hawk – 1
  • Red-tailed Hawk – 2
  • Killdeer – 32
  • Mourning Dove – 33
  • Greater Roadrunner – 1
  • Belted Kingfisher – 1, sitting atop the automatic fish feeder at the golf course
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 2
  • Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 4
  • Northern Flicker, yellow-shafted – 1
  • Eastern Phoebe – 1
  • Loggerhead Shrike – 2
  • Blue Jay – 16
  • American Crow – 2
  • Cave Swallow – 10
  • Black-crested Titmouse – 2
  • Bewick’s Wren – 2
  • House Wren – 2
  • Eastern Bluebird – 14
  • Northern Mockingbird – 10
  • Curve-billed Thrasher – 1
  • European Starling – 14
  • American Pipit – 1
  • Orange-crowned Warbler – 1
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler – 6
  • Spotted Towhee – 2
  • Chipping Sparrow – 13
  • Clay-colored Sparrow – 1
  • Vesper Sparrow – 12
  • Lark Bunting – 25
  • Savannah Sparrow – 12
  • Song Sparrow – 2
  • Lincoln’s Sparrow – 2
  • White-crowned Sparrow – 25
  • Northern Cardinal – 3
  • Pyrrhuloxia – 2
  • Red-winged Blackbird – 2
  • Western Meadowlark – 38
  • Great-tailed Grackle – 34
  • House Finch – 42

Sightings by Lynn Barber and LgPacker