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