Best bird(s) of the morning:

• Spotted Sandpiper, 1
• Long-billed Curlew, 10 flying overhead
• Yellow Warbler, 2
• Wave after wave of Scissor-tailed Flycatchers flying south as dawn broke. By the time the sun rose I had counted over 200.

Complete List:

• Wild Turkey, 18
• Green Heron, 5
• Turkey Vulture, 1
• Mississippi Kite: 1, juvenile. Didn’t find any adults; but noticed one large (75+) kettle of kites August 19 near Seymour.
• Swainson’s Hawk: 2, one juvenile and the other the adult male.
• Killdeer, 3
• Spotted Sandpiper, 1
• Long-billed Curlew, 10 flying overhead
• Rock Pigeon, 2
• White-winged Dove, 5
• Mourning Dove, 29
• Common Nighthawk, 2
• Chimney Swift, 17
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 3
• Western Kingbird, 5
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 217
• Blue Jay, 3
• Cliff Swallow, 2
• Cave Swallow, 7
• Barn Swallow, 2
• Black-crested Titmouse, 1
• Bewick’s Wren, 3
• Eastern Bluebird, 8
• American Robin, 47
• Northern Mockingbird, 6
• Curve-billed Thrasher, 1
• European Starling, 86
• Yellow Warbler, 2
• Northern Cardinal, 4
• Dickcissel, 4 (including one female still bringing food to a nest site)
• Great-tailed Grackle, 200+
• Bullock’s Oriole, 3
• House Finch, 44

Sightings by LgPacker, at Mesquite Grove GC