Author: Laura

  • The Patches Are Here!

    The long-awaited Painted Bunting patches are now here!  They are very handsome and even more striking than the above photo depicts.  One will look awesome on your birding vest; two will look stereoscopic on your hat; and three will look ridiculous plastered to your day pack – but who am I to comment on your […]

  • January 10, 2009 – Area Sightings

    Abilene State Park Highlights: Wood Duck Brown Creeper Complete list: Wood Duck – 2 Great Blue Heron – 2 Black Vulture – 6 Red-shouldered Hawk – 1 Mourning Dove – 2 Downy Woodpecker – 1 Eastern Phoebe – 1 Blue Jay – 2 Carolina Chickadee – 7 Black-crested Titmouse – 11 Brown Creeper – 1 […]

  • What Happened in December?

    Nothing happens in the bird world in December, right?  Besides we’re too busy with holidays, CBCs (I did three!),  shopping, baking, and entertaining.  But while we were sleeping and waking and running, some of you noticed the birds and sent us photos. A lingering Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was found at the wastewater treatment plant in Jones […]

  • January, 2009 Calendar

    Board Meeting: Tuesday, January 13, 2009  – 7:00 pm. Board meeting at MezAmiz Coffee Shop on South 7th.  Come early (6:30pm) to order dinner.  All members are welcome. Field Trip: Saturday, January 17, 2009 – 7:30 am. Wild Goose Chase in Haskell County!  We’ll carpool from the Towne Crier on Business 20, leaving at 7:45 […]

  • January 6, 2009 – SeaBee Park

    Highlight: Vermilion Flycatcher, 1 young male found Jan 1 and still present White-faced Ibis – 1 juvenile Complete List: Gadwall – 10 Northern Shoveler – 52 Northern Pintail – 1 Green-winged Teal – 14 Bufflehead – 4 Pied-billed Grebe – 3 Snowy Egret – 2 White-faced Ibis – 1 Northern Harrier -  1 American Coot […]

  • 2008 Christmas Bird Count

    This is the complete list of species seen on the 2008 Christmas bird count conducted January 3, 2009.  Our number of species was down probably due to the lack of recent rainfall.  Duck numbers were also low, with some area ponds completely void of ducks.  We did not have access to some private and government […]

  • December 27, 2008 – Dyess AFB, NE

    Complete List: Gadwall – 4 Northern Shoveler – 9 Redhead – 2 Bufflehead – 2 Wild Turkey – 38 Northern Harrier – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 8 American Kestrel -  1 Ring-billed Gull – 3 Rock Pigeon – 10 White-winged Dove – 2 Mourning Dove – 21 Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 2 Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 2 […]

  • December 26, 2008 – Lake Kirby

    Highlight: Common Goldeneye Complete List: Gadwall   -  32 Mallard (Domestic type)  -   6 Cinnamon Teal  -   2 Northern Shoveler  -   4 Northern Pintail   -  1 Green-winged Teal  -   22 Ring-necked Duck  -   1 Bufflehead  -   2 Common Goldeneye   -  1 Pied-billed Grebe  -   5 Eared Grebe   -  3 American White Pelican   -  52 Neotropic Cormorant  -  2 Double-crested Cormorant   -  35 Great Blue Heron  -   7 Sharp-shinned Hawk  -   1 American […]

  • December 21, 2008 – Lake Abilene

    Complete List: Pied-billed Grebe – 4 Black Vulture – 6 Northern Harrier – 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 American Kestrel – 1 American Coot – 40 Killdeer – 1 Ring-billed Gull – 10 Eastern Phoebe – 1 Blue Jay – 2 Carolina Chickadee – 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 3 Eastern Bluebird – 2 American Robin […]

  • December 13, 2008 – Maddin Prairie Preserve

    Highlights: Wood Duck Prairie Falcon Burrowing Owl Sprague’s Pipit Black-throated Sparrow Le Conte’s Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Complete List: Wood Duck – 1, male Northern Bobwhite – 10 Northern Harrier – 6 Cooper’s Hawk – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 3 Prairie Falcon – 2 Sandhill Crane – 300, flying over Mourning Dove – 350 Greater Roadrunner […]