Category: Sightings

  • September 2, 2008 – Cedar Gap Farm

    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 […]

  • September 1, 2008 – SeaBee Park

    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 […]

  • August 31, 2008 – Lake Kirby

    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 […]

  • August 30, 2008 – NE Fisher County

    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 […]

  • August 23, 2008 – Waste Water

    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 […]

  • August 10, 2008 – Lake Abilene

    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 […]

  • August 9, 2008 – Dyess AFB

    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 […]

  • August 8, 2008 – Lake Kirby

    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 […]

  • August 7, 2008 – Dyess AFB

    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 […]

  • August 3, 2008 – Lake Fort Phantom

    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 […]