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Spring Migration-Many Happy Returns
It’s the time of year birders await with eager anticipation. How will spring migration be this year? The songbird migration of 2009 kicked off in early April with very good numbers of Clay-colored Sparrows moving through along with Chipping Sparrows. Indigo, Lazuli and Painted Buntings have all been seen at Cedar Gap Farm. Now will […]
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April 18, 2009 – Abilene – Oakwood Trails
Number of species: 35 Mallard (Domestic type) – 2 Wild Turkey – 4 Turkey Vulture – 3 Red-shouldered Hawk – 1 Rock Pigeon – 40 Eurasian Collared-Dove – 2 Mourning Dove – 42 Greater Roadrunner – 1 Chimney Swift – 2 Black-chinned Hummingbird – 3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 4 Ash-throated Flycatcher – 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher […]
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April 12, 2009 – Nelson Park
Highlights Mallard – 11 (1 pair with 7 ducklings in tow and another pair) Western Kingbird – 1 (FOS) Number of species: 32 Greater White-fronted Goose – 1 Canada Goose – 1 Mallard – 11 Mallard (Domestic type) – 10 Green-winged Teal – 1 American White Pelican – 4 Great Egret – 1 Red-tailed Hawk […]
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April 11, 2009 – Mesquite Grove Golf Course
Number of species: 38 Neotropic Cormorant – 1 Great Egret – 1 Turkey Vulture – 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 Cooper’s Hawk – 1 Swainson’s Hawk – 2 Red-tailed Hawk – 2 Killdeer – 2 Rock Pigeon – 10 Mourning Dove – 125 Greater Roadrunner – 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird – 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 6 […]
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Apirl 5, 2009 – Lake Fort Phantom Hill
Eared Grebe – 8 Osprey – 2 Dowitcher sp – 50 Least Sandpiper – 8 Am. Avocet – 9 Green-winged Teal – 12 Blue-winged Teal – 6 Cinnamon Teal – 1 Ruddy Duck – 12 Brewer’s Blackbird – 5 Also, Say’s Phoebe (1) at Will Hair Park in Abilene Sightings by L. Black