Highlights:

• Summer Tanager, brilliant red male, showing off in the bath
• Baltimore Orioles

Complete List:

• Mourning Dove - 1
• Greater Roadrunner - 1
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 6
• Black-chinned Hummingbird - 3
• Western Scrub-Jay - 2
• Carolina Chickadee - 4
• Black-crested Titmouse - 3
• Bewick’s Wren - 1
• Summer Tanager - 1
• Canyon Towhee - 2
• Lark Sparrow - 1
• Northern Cardinal - 15 (and this may be low)
• Painted Bunting - 8 (all young or female)
• Baltimore Oriole - 4
• Lesser Goldfinch - 12 (and this number may be low, too)
• House Sparrow - 2

Sightings by LgPacker

SeaBee Park:

• Pied-billed Grebe 1
• Least Bittern 1
• Great Blue Heron 3
• Great Egret 5
• Snowy Egret 25
• Little Blue Heron 1
• Green Heron 3
• Turkey Vulture 2
• Greater Yellowlegs 1
• Rock Pigeon 12
• White-winged Dove 2
• Mourning Dove 16
• Belted Kingfisher 1
• Golden-fronted Woodpecker 2
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 3
• Blue Jay 2
• Barn Swallow 5
• Carolina Chickadee 2
• American Robin 12
• Northern Mockingbird 2
• Yellow Warbler 1
• Northern Cardinal 4
• Red-winged Blackbird 22
• Common Grackle 3

Sightings by Dan Symonds

Wastewater Treatment Plant Highlight:

• Sanderling, 1

Wastewater sightings by Jay and Amy Packer. Complete list on e-Bird

• Great Blue Heron 4
• Great Egret 11
• Snowy Egret 5
• Green Heron 1
• Turkey Vulture 4
• Killdeer 6
• Spotted Sandpiper 3
• Rock Pigeon 11
• White-winged Dove 4
• Mourning Dove 10
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
• Chimney Swift 5
• Belted Kingfisher 1
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 2
• Cliff Swallow 50
• Barn Swallow 5
• Black-crested Titmouse 2
• Carolina Wren 2
• Northern Mockingbird 9
• Curve-billed Thrasher 2
• European Starling 5
• Yellow Warbler 3
• Lark Sparrow 4
• Northern Cardinal 7
• Pyrrhuloxia 1
• Painted Bunting 3
• Red-winged Blackbird 5
• Great-tailed Grackle 21
• House Finch 5

Sightings by Dan Symonds

NE Fisher County:

• Northern Bobwhite 50
• Turkey Vulture 33
• Swainson’s Hawk 4
• Red-tailed Hawk 1
• American Kestrel 2
• Eurasian Collared-Dove 10
• White-winged Dove 25
• Mourning Dove 200
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2
• Greater Roadrunner 3
• Chimney Swift 2
• Golden-fronted Woodpecker 4
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 200
• Loggerhead Shrike 6
• White-eyed Vireo 2
• Barn Swallow 100
• Northern Mockingbird 30
• Brown Thrasher 4
• Lark Sparrow 33
• Blue Grosbeak 2
• Painted Bunting 2
• Eastern Meadowlark 4
• Great-tailed Grackle 13
• Orchard Oriole 11
• Bullock’s Oriole 15
• House Sparrow 4

Sightings by Dan Symonds

Other Sightings Saturday:

• White-eyed Vireo – 6, Abilene State Park
• Black Tern - 10, Lake Abilene
• Red-shouldered Hawk – 1, Lake Abilene
• Rufous-crowned Sparrow – 1, Lake Abilene
• White-faced Ibis - 3, Lake Kirby
• Common Tern - 2, Lake Kirby
• Caspian Tern - 1, Lake Kirby
• Forster’s Tern - 2 on Sunday, Lake Kirby

Other Sightings by Lorie Black

Highlights:

• Upland Sandpipers, actually seen
• All the shorebirds, read on
• American Golden-Plover (see picture)
• Long-billed Curlew (see picture)
• Leucistic (almost albino) Black-chinned Hummingbird

Complete List:

• Blue-winged Teal - 4
• Northern Bobwhite - 3
• Great Blue Heron - 1
• Great Egret - 1
• Snowy Egret - 2
• Cattle Egret - 15
• White-faced Ibis - 26
• Turkey Vulture - 2
• Swainson’s Hawk - 2
• Red-tailed Hawk - 1
• American Golden-Plover - in a field off Hwy 351
• Killdeer - 21
• Black-necked Stilt - 35
• Spotted Sandpiper - 2
• Solitary Sandpiper - 4
• Greater Yellowlegs - 15
• Lesser Yellowlegs - 5
• Upland Sandpiper - 13
• Least Sandpiper - 26
• Baird’s Sandpiper - 2
• Stilt Sandpiper - 2
• Long-billed Dowitcher - 22
• Long-billed Curlew - 1 in a field off Hwy 351
• Wilson’s Phalarope - 23
• Eurasian Collared-Dove - 2
• White-winged Dove - 4
• Mourning Dove - 23
• Inca Dove - 2 in Abilene
• Common Nighthawk - 1 in Abilene
• Chimney Swift - 2 in Abilene
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 2 in Abilene
• Black-chinned Hummingbird - 4 * with one being leucistic see a picture here in Abilene
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker - 1
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 12
• Blue Jay - 2
• Bank Swallow - 2
• Cliff Swallow - 1
• Cave Swallow - 5
• Barn Swallow - 15
• Northern Mockingbird 8
• European Starling 25
• Lark Sparrow 2
• Northern Cardinal 3
• Painted Bunting 2
• Red-winged Blackbird 100
• Eastern Meadowlark 1
• Common Grackle 23
• Great-tailed Grackle 100
• Brown-headed Cowbird 25
• House Finch 1
• House Sparrow 5

Sightings by Bill Hughes, Bera Johnson, Laura Packer, Don & Sondra Seamster, Dan Symonds, and Heidi Trudell

• Great Blue Heron 5
• Great Egret 1
• Turkey Vulture 12
• Mississippi Kite 3
• Red-tailed Hawk 1
• Eurasian Collared-Dove 15
• White-winged Dove 25
• Mourning Dove 12
• Black-chinned Hummingbird 1
• Belted Kingfisher 1
• Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
• Eastern Phoebe 1
• Western Kingbird 2
• White-eyed Vireo 1
• Blue Jay 2
• Purple Martin 2
• Cliff Swallow 15
• Cave Swallow 10
• Barn Swallow 10
• Eastern Bluebird 2
• Summer Tanager 2
• Lark Sparrow 16
• Northern Cardinal 8
• Blue Grosbeak 2
• Painted Bunting 3
• Red-winged Blackbird 12
• Orchard Oriole 9

All sightings by Dan Symonds

• Northern Bobwhite 2
• Great Blue Heron 1
• Turkey Vulture 2
• Mississippi Kite 2
• Swainson’s Hawk 1
• Red-tailed Hawk 1
• American Kestrel 1
• Rock Pigeon 11
• Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
• White-winged Dove 100
• Mourning Dove 150
• Common Nighthawk 2
• Chimney Swift 3
• Golden-fronted Woodpecker 2
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3
• Western Kingbird 10
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 4
• Blue Jay 2
• Cliff Swallow 150
• Cave Swallow 50
• Barn Swallow 10
• Cactus Wren 3
• Eastern Bluebird 6
• American Robin 8
• Northern Mockingbird 15
• Curve-billed Thrasher 7
• European Starling 29
• Lark Sparrow 10
• Northern Cardinal 4
• Blue Grosbeak 2
• Painted Bunting 2
• Great-tailed Grackle 10
• Brown-headed Cowbird 5
• House Finch 15
• Lesser Goldfinch 2
• House Sparrow 2

All sightings by Dan Symonds

• Mallard: 5
• Great Blue Heron: 1
• Great Egret: 3
• Snowy Egret: 5
• Green Heron: 3
• Least Bittern: 2
• Common Moorhen: 2
• American Coot: 2
• Killdeer: 2
• Upland Sandpiper: 1 overhead
• Lesser Yellowlegs: 1
• Greater Yellowlegs: 4
• Spotted Sandpiper: 1
• Pectoral Sandpiper: 1
• Least Sandpiper: 15
• Mourning Dove: 12
• Barn Swallow: 25
• Northern Mockingbird: 2
• Red-winged Blackbird: 75
• Great-tailed Grackle: 35

Sightings by Laura Packer

• Wild Turkey: 13
• Northern Bobwhite: 2
• Mississippi Kite: 6
• Swainson’s Hawk: 2 adults, 2 nestlings
• Killdeer: 5
• Upland Sandpiper: 14 flying overhead
• Mourning Dove: 12, but over 450 recorded 8-6
• White-winged Dove: 1
• Greater Roadrunner: 6
• Common Nighthawk: 24 along S. 1st
• Chimney Swift: 2
• Black-chinned Hummingbird: 2
• Golden-fronted Woodpecker: 1
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker: 3
• Western Kingbird: 2
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher: 81
• American Crow: 1
• Cliff Swallow: 5
• Cave Swallow: 1
• Barn Swallow: 5
• Bewick’s Wren: 3
• American Robin: 10
• Northern Mockingbird: 2
• European Starling: 6
• Lark Sparrow: 2
• Blue Grosbeak: 18,
• Painted Bunting: 3
• Dickcissel: 3
• Red-winged Blackbird: 1
• Bullock’s Oriole: 2
• House Sparrow: 1

Sightings by Laura Packer

SeaBee Park, southern end of Lake Fort Phantom:

• Pied-billed Grebe: 2
• Great Blue Heron: 1
• Great Egret: 3
• Snowy Egret: 5
• Little Blue Heron: 2
• Cattle Egret: 3
• Green Heron: 2
• White-faced Ibis: 12
• Turkey Vulture: 2
• Mississippi Kite: 2
• Killdeer: 10
• Black-necked Stilt: 5
• Greater Yellowlegs: 4
• Semipalmated Sandpiper: 2
• Rock Pigeon: 10
• Mourning Dove: 5
• Black-chinned Hummingbird: 1
• Belted Kingfisher: 1
• Western Kingbird: 3
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher: 5
• Barn Swallow: 4
• Black-crested Titmouse: 2
• Northern Mockingbird: 3
• Curve-billed Thrasher: 1
• European Starling: 1
• Lark Sparrow: 5
• Northern Cardinal: 4
• Red-winged Blackbird: 15
• Great-tailed Grackle: 17

Lake Fort Phantom Spillway:

• Great Blue Heron: 1
• Great Egret: 4
• Snowy Egret: 4
• Green Heron: 1
• Turkey Vulture: 4
• Black-necked Stilt: 1
• Spotted Sandpiper: 5
• Greater Yellowlegs: 1
• Semipalmated Sandpiper: 10
• Mourning Dove: 10
• European Starling: 2
• Lark Sparrow: 2
• Great-tailed Grackle: 4

All sightings by Dan Symonds