Lake Kirby

Highlights:

• Common Loon
• Duck species
• Horned Grebe
• Eared Grebe
• Wilson’s Snipe

Complete List:

• Gadwall – 2
• Blue-winged Teal – 4
• Northern Shoveler – 5
• Redhead – 4
• Ring-necked Duck – 4
• Ruddy Duck – 2
• Common Loon – 1
• Pied-billed Grebe – 5
• Horned Grebe – 1
• Eared Grebe – 20
• American White Pelican – 30
• Double-crested Cormorant – 22
• Great Blue Heron – 5
• Great Egret – 6
• Snowy Egret – 5
• Cattle Egret – 5
• Red-tailed Hawk – 1
• Common Moorhen – 1
• American Coot – 70
• Killdeer – 3
• Greater Yellowlegs – 3
• Wilson’s Snipe – 5
• Ring-billed Gull – 20
• Belted Kingfisher – 2
• Red-winged Blackbird – 25
• Common Grackle – 2
• Great-tailed Grackle – 2
• House Sparrow – 30

Sightings by Lorie Black and Dan Symonds

Southern Taylor County

Highlights:

• Say’s Phoebe
• Loggerhead Shrike feeding young (late nesting by this species)
• Canyon Wren
• Western Bluebird, FOS
• Brown Thrasher – 2
• Pine Siskin, FOS

Complete List:

• Green-winged Teal – 8
• Mallard – 11
• Northern Bobwhite – 5 coveys heard
• Black Vulture – 5
• Red-tailed Hawk – 4
• American Kestrel – 4
• Rock Pigeon – 18
• Eurasian Collared-Dove – 7
• Mourning Dove – 49
• White-winged Dove – 14
• Great Horned Owl – 2
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 1
• Say’s Phoebe – 1, along CR 353
• Loggerhead Shrike – 6
• Western Scrub-Jay – 2
• Chihuahuan Raven – 2
• Carolina Chickadee – 2
• Black-crested Titmouse – 3
• Canyon Wren – 1, CR 351
• Carolina Wren – 1
• House Wren – 1
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 1
• Eastern Bluebird – 2
• Western Bluebird – 18, CR 351 near Hwy 89
• Northern Mockingbird – 14
• Brown Thrasher – 2
• European Starling – 3
• Orange-crowned Warbler – 3
• Spotted Towhee – 9
• Vesper Sparrow – 11
• Savannah Sparrow – 4
• White-crowned Sparrow – 48
• Northern Cardinal – 4
• Pyrrhuloxia – 1
• Red-winged Blackbird – 8
• Western Meadowlark – 81
• Great-tailed Grackle – 12
• Brown-headed Cowbird – 6
• House Finch – 2
• Pine Siskin – 104, FOS, CR 351
• Lesser Goldfinch – 2
• House Sparrow – 10

Sightings by LgPacker along Taylor County Roads 350, 351, 89, FM 1235, Hwy 277, CR 707, 314, 283, 290(Butterfield School Road), 277, 353, 126, but not necessarily in this order.