Waste Water is now without water. High evaporation rates and low precipitation has drained all moisture from the ponds. We’ll have to wait for rain to replenish the ponds.
Highlights:
- Sandhill Cranes – 26
- Wilson’s Snipe – 1
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 1, very late date
Complete List:
- Green-winged Teal – 12
- Mallard – 9
- Northern Harrier – 2
- Red-tailed Hawk – 3
- American Kestrel – 2
- Sandhill Crane – 26
- Wilson’s Snipe – 1
- Ring-billed Gull – 1
- Eurasian Collared-Dove – 2
- Mourning Dove – 4
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 1
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 2
- Loggerhead Shrike – 1
- Marsh Wren – 1
- American Pipit – 1
- Vesper Sparrow – 7
- Savannah Sparrow – 8
- Song Sparrow – 2
- White-crowned Sparrow – 76
- Northern Cardinal – 1
- Pyrrhuloxia – 1
- Red-winged Blackbird – 250
- Meadowlark species – 35
- Western Meadowlark – 1 (because it vocalized)
- Brown-headed Cowbird – 100
- American Goldfinch – 2
- House Sparrow – 8
Sightings by LgPacker, Derek Pursell, HTrudell