Best bird(s) of the morning:

• wasn’t a bird, it was a HUGE dark bobcat slinking up the creek bank and disappearing into the mesquite shrub. Lynn and I both had cameras; but it happened so quick, we only had time to gawk at it.

Complete List:

• Wild Turkey – 19
• Northern Bobwhite – 23
• Double-crested Cormorant – 5
• Northern Harrier – 3
• Cooper’s Hawk – 1
• Red-tailed Hawk – 2
• Killdeer – 32
• Mourning Dove – 33
• Greater Roadrunner – 1
• Belted Kingfisher – 1, sitting atop the automatic fish feeder at the golf course
• Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 2
• Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 4
• Northern Flicker, yellow-shafted – 1
• Eastern Phoebe – 1
• Loggerhead Shrike – 2
• Blue Jay – 16
• American Crow – 2
• Cave Swallow – 10
• Black-crested Titmouse – 2
• Bewick’s Wren – 2
• House Wren – 2
• Eastern Bluebird – 14
• Northern Mockingbird – 10
• Curve-billed Thrasher – 1
• European Starling – 14
• American Pipit – 1
• Orange-crowned Warbler – 1
• Yellow-rumped Warbler – 6
• Spotted Towhee – 2
• Chipping Sparrow – 13
• Clay-colored Sparrow – 1
• Vesper Sparrow – 12
• Lark Bunting – 25
• Savannah Sparrow – 12
• Song Sparrow – 2
• Lincoln’s Sparrow – 2
• White-crowned Sparrow – 25
• Northern Cardinal – 3
• Pyrrhuloxia – 2
• Red-winged Blackbird – 2
• Western Meadowlark – 38
• Great-tailed Grackle – 34
• House Finch – 42

Sightings by Lynn Barber and LgPacker