Category: Sightings

  • November 12, 2007-Lake Kirby

    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 […]

  • November 09, 2007 – Lake Kirby

    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 […]

  • November 3, 2007 – Lake Kirby

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • October 27, 2007 – Area Lakes

    Highlights From SeaBee Park American Coot – numerous Redhead – 15 Canvasback – 4 Gadwall – 3 House Wren – 1 Orange-crowned Warbler – 1 Common Yellowthroat – 1 Song Sparrow – 2 Highlights From Lake Ft Phantom: Snowy Egret – 3 Great Egret – 1 Greater Yellowlegs – 1 Lesser Yellowlegs – 4 Osprey […]

  • October 27, 2007 – Cedar Gap Farm and Southern Taylor County

    Highlights from Cedar Gap Farm: Red-breasted Nuthatch – 2 Blue-headed Vireo – 1 From Southern Taylor County, along CR 131, 133, 134, and connecting roads: Ruddy Duck – 8 Great Blue Heron – 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 American Kestrel – 8 Merlin – 1 Sandhill Cranes – 25 Mourning Dove – 50 Common Ground […]

  • October 26, 2007 – Southern Taylor County

    After counting quail all week for TPWD, I did a little birding in Southern Taylor County along County roads 194, 195, 196, 184, and 207. Best bird(s) of the day: Various ducks at Graham Lake on CR 207 – see list below Merlin – 1, with his catch of the day Sora – 1 Bushtit […]

  • October 13, 2007 – Lake McCarty Field Trip

    En route (Callahan Co) Snowy Egret – 75 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 20 American Kestrel – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 1 Loggerhead Shrike – 1 Blackbird species – 100+ Mourning Dove – 15 European Starling – numerous Cattle Egret – 65 Dowitcher species – 28 Near Albany Chihuahuan Raven – 2 Black Vulture – 2 Turkey […]

  • October 7, 2007 – Lake Fort Phantom Area

    Nothing really surprising, but here’s a list: SeaBee Little Blue Heron – 1 Great Egret – 1 Cattle Egret – 6 Pied-billed Grebe – 4 Lk Ft Phantom Spillway Lesser Yellowlegs – 50 Greater Yellowlegs – 3 White-faced Ibis – 12 Great Egret – 6 Snowy Egret – 2 Cattle Egret – 10 Black-necked Stilt […]

  • October 4, 2007-DAFB

    Best bird(s) of the morning: Warblers continue to trickle through the riparian areas on Base Orange-crowned Warbler: 5 Nashville Warbler, 4 Yellow Warbler, 1 Common Yellowthroat, 1 Clay-colored Sparrow: 4 Lincoln’s Sparrow (FOS): 1 Complete List: Northern Bobwhite, 3 Swainson’s Hawk: 1 Great Egret: 6 overhead Rock Pigeon, 4 Mourning Dove, 5 Eastern Phoebe, 1 […]