Category: Sightings

  • November 12, 2008 – Cedar Creek Area

    Highlights: Wood Ducks Brown Thrasher Audubon’s Warbler Complete List: Wood Duck – 8 Wild Turkey – 17 Cooper’s Hawk – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 1 American Kestrel – 1 Mourning Dove – 1 White-winged Dove – 12 Inca Dove – 4 Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 1 Downy Woodpecker – 1 Northern Flicker – 2 Eastern Phoebe […]

  • November 9, 2008 – SeaBee Park

    Complete List: Gadwall 14 Blue-winged Teal – 10 Northern Shoveler – 30 Canvasback – 10 Ring-necked Duck – 10 Pied-billed Grebe – 11 Double-crested Cormorant – 75 Great Blue Heron – 2 Great Egret – 3 Northern Harrier – 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 1 American Kestrel – 3 American Coot – […]

  • November 8, 2008 – Lake OH Ivie

    Highlights: Wood Duck Thousands of other ducks Hooded Merganser Common Loon Western Grebe Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (a late sighting) Five species of wren! Nine species of sparrow! Complete List: Wood Duck – 2 American Wigeon – 1,000 Gadwall – 48 Green-winged Teal – 18 Mallard – 24 Northern Pintail – 6 Northern Shoveler – 1 Canvasback […]

  • November 2, 2008 – Abilene State Park

    Highlights: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Brown Creeper, FOS Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 14 Pine Siskins, FOS for the Park Complete List: Blue-winged Teal 2 Double-crested Cormorant 30 Great Blue Heron 1 Black Vulture 22 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove 2 White-winged Dove 15 Mourning Dove 8 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 1 […]

  • November 1, 2008 – Haskell-Jones-Taylor County

    Haskell County Highlights: Greater White-fronted Goose – 5,000 Snow Goose – 1,500 Ross’s Goose – 6 Canada Goose – 3,000 Cackling Goose – 1,000 Merlin Prairie Falcon Brewer’s Blackbird – 15 Complete List: Greater White-fronted Goose – 5,000 Snow Goose – 1,500 Ross’s Goose – 6 Canada Goose – 3,000 Cackling Goose – 1,000 American […]

  • October 25, 2008 – Fort Griffin Field Trip

    Highlights: Neotropic Cormorant Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Flicker Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, numbers are dwindling fast Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Song Sparrow, FOS A good mix of wintering sparrows (see complete list below) Complete List: Wild Turkey – 26 Neotropic Cormorant – 3 Great Blue Heron – 1 Turkey Vulture – 1 Northern Harrier – 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 […]

  • October 24, 2008 – Lake Kirby and S. Taylor County

    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 […]

  • October 19, 2008 – Dyess AFB, NE

    Complete List: Northern Bobwhite – 1 Great Blue Heron – 1 Red-shouldered Hawk – 1 Swainson’s Hawk – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 3 American Kestrel – 2 Killdeer – 3 Rock Pigeon – 54 Eurasian Collared-Dove – 1 Mourning Dove – 15 Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 21 Blue […]

  • October 18, 2008 – Southern Taylor County

    Highlights: Bushtits And the returning winter species, see list. Semi-complete List (complete for species seen, but not complete quantities) Double-crested Cormorant – 20 Great Blue Heron – 1 Black Vulture – 2 Turkey Vulture – 2 Red-tailed Hawk – 3 (one was a very dark morph) Eurasian Collared-Dove – 2 White-winged Dove – 2 Mourning […]

  • October 18, 2008 – Lake Abilene

    Highlights: The ducks are here! See complete list below. Olive-sided Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Eastern Wood-Peewee Complete List: Wood Duck – 3 Gadwall – 10 American Wigeon – 10 Blue-winged Teal – 15 Northern Shoveler – 10 Northern Pintail – 2 Redhead – 10 Ruddy Duck – 2 Pied-billed Grebe – 5 Double-crested Cormorant – 15 […]