May 10, 2008 – Lakes Ft. Phantom, Kirby, & Ivie


Lake Fort Phantom Hill:

  • Ruddy Turnstone – 1
  • Yellow Warbler – 1
  • Bonaparte’s Gull – 1

Kirby Lake

  • Stilt Sandpiper – 2
  • Semi-palmated Sandpiper – 1
  • Spotted Sandpiper – 3


Cedar Gap Farm – Friday, May 9:

  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 1
  • Indigo Bunting – 1 (female)
  • Lazuli Bunting – 1 (female)
  • Painted Bunting – 6
  • Still many Pine Siskins

Above sightings by Lorie Black

Lake O.H. Ivie (Concho Recreation Area):

  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • Wild Turkey
  • Northern Bobwhite
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Green Heron
  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Swainson’s Hawk
  • Red-tailed Hawk
  • American Kestrel
  • American Coot
  • Rock Pigeon
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove
  • Mourning Dove
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Common Nighthawk
  • Golden-fronted Woodpecker
  • Ash-throated Flycatcher
  • Western Kingbird
  • Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • American Crow
  • Chihuahuan Raven
  • Purple Martin
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Cactus Wren
  • Bewick’s Wren
  • Marsh Wren
  • Northern Mockingbird
  • Curve-billed Thrasher
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Cassin’s Sparrow
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Clay-colored Sparrow
  • Lark Sparrow
  • White-crowned Sparrow
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Pyrrhuloxia
  • Blue Grosbeak
  • Painted Bunting
  • Dickcissel
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Common Grackle
  • Great-tailed Grackle
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Bullock’s Oriole
  • House Finch
    Fish Species

  • Florida Largemouth Bass 5
  • Black Crappie 1

    Mammal Species

  • Cottontail Rabbit 4

Sightings by Dan Symonds