Best bird(s) of the day: Cave Swallow: 1, it’s getting really late in the season to be seeing swallows Rock Wren: 1 in the same place previously found two years ago. Talk about site fidelity Brown Creeper: 1 Complete List: Mallard: 2 Wild Turkey: 13 Great Blue Heron: 2 Northern Harrier: 1 Red-tailed Hawk: 3, […]

Best bird(s) of the morning: Pomarine Jaeger continues harrassing the gulls and I watched it chase after an American White Pelican, but the pelican seemed indifferent to its advances. The cold and snow brought in a few more ducks. The List: American Wigeon: 4 Gadwall: 8 Mallard: 4 Northern Pintail: 4 Northern Shoveler: 12 Canvasback: […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Black Phoebe; first reported by Dan Symonds 11-17-2007 Complete List: Great Blue Heron: 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk: 2 Red-shouldered Hawk: 1 Red-tailed Hawk: 1, being chased by one of the Sharpies American Kestrel: 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove: 3 White-winged Dove: 26 Black Phoebe: 1 Great Kiskadee: 1 heard Blue Jay: 6 American […]

Best bird(s) of the morning: Pomarine Jaeger: 1 Complete List: Mallard: 8 Redhead: 1 Pied-billed Grebe: 6 Eared Grebe: 2 American White Pelican: 5 Double-crested Cormorant: 4 Great Blue Heron: 4 Great Egret: 3 Snowy Egret: 5 Black-crowned Night-Heron: 1 American Coot: 31 Killdeer: 19 Wilson’s Snipe: 4 Greater Yellowlegs: 1 Spotted Sandpiper: 1 Least […]

Best bird(s): Red-breasted Merganser: 1 female Forster’s Tern: 1 Parasitic Jaeger (until someone with more experience tells us different) Complete List: Red-breasted Merganser: 1 Pied-billed Grebe: 8 American White Pelican: 12 Double-crested Cormorant: 24 Great Blue Heron: 8 Great Egret: 2 Snowy Egret: 8 Red-tailed Hawk: 1 American Coot: 24 Killdeer: 4 American Avocet: 2 […]

Best bird(s) of the day: The ducks are finally here! Cackling Goose – 1 Merlin – 1 Complete List: Pied-billed Grebe – 12 Horned Grebe – 2 Eared Grebe – 18 American White Pelican – 60 Great Egret – 2 Snowy Egret – 6 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron – 1 immature Cackling Goose – 1 American Wigeon […]

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 […]