Backyard Feeder White-winged Dove Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Western Kingbird Blue Jay American Robin Ovenbird Clay-colored Sparrow Common Grackle House Finch Pine Siskin House Sparrow Sightings by Dan Symonds who had a life bird with the Ovenbird! Sorry, no camera handy for a photo.

Lake Abilene Highlights: Common Yellowthroat, FOS Indigo Bunting Blue Grosbeak, FOS Complete List: Great Blue Heron 3 Black Vulture 2 American Coot 2 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Franklin’s Gull 75 Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 Mourning Dove 8 Belted Kingfisher 2 Western Kingbird 1 Barn Swallow 10 Northern Mockingbird 1 Common Yellowthroat 2 Chipping Sparrow 10 Clay-colored Sparrow […]

Lake Fort Phantom Hill Eared Grebe – 8 Willet – 18 Stilt Sandpiper – 6 Franklin’s Gull – 2 Forster’s Tern – 1 Nashville Warbler – 1 Bullock’s Oriole – 3 Yellow-headed Blackbird – 1 Kirby Lake Willet – 31 Marbled Godwit – 2 Common Moorhen – 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher – 1 Bell’s Vireo – […]

These are the highlights of birding around Lake Fort Phantom, Lake Kirby, Oakwood Trails (State School), and Wildlife Trails (east of ACU). If anyone would like a complete list, we will happily e-mail one upon request. Key: LFP: Lake Fort Phantom, LK: Lake Kirby, OT: Oakwood Trails, WT: Wildlife Trails Eared Grebe: 6, LK American […]

Highlights: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Mississippi Kite Chihuahuan Ravens on nest Ruby-crowned Kinglet Orange-crowned Warbler Painted Bunting, FOS for Dyess Complete List: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 2 Wild Turkey 1 Northern Bobwhite 4 Turkey Vulture 2 Mississippi Kite 1 Swainson’s Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Rock Pigeon 10 Mourning Dove 22 Greater Roadrunner 2 Black-chinned Hummingbird 2 Golden-fronted Woodpecker […]

Highlights: Green-winged Teal, 2 Blue-winged Teal, 50 Cinnamon Teal, 3 Northern Shoveler, 150 Lesser Scaup, 1 Ruddy Duck, 2 Eared Grebe in breeding plumage, 8 Snowy Egret, 8 White-faced Ibis, 10 Semipalmated Plover, 3 FOS Black-necked Stilt, 26 American Avocet, 101 Wilson’s Snipe, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 12 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1, FOS Stilt Sandpiper, 3, FOS […]

Dan Symonds had a very productive morning at Seebee Park, adding 5 to his life list (marked with an L). Black-necked Stilts and Wilson’s Phalarope are beautifully colored birds this time of year. Those birds marked with an X means they were present but uncounted. Complete List: Gadwall – 15 Blue-winged Teal – 18 Northern […]

Highlights: Semipalmated Sandpiper – 8 Western Sandpiper – 1 Nashville Warbler – 1 (FOS) Yellow-headed Blackbird – 1 Complete List: Mallard – 2 Pied-billed Grebe – 1 American White Pelican – 1 Double-crested Cormorant – 4 Great Blue Heron – 2 Snowy Egret – 2 Green Heron – 2 Turkey Vulture – 4 American Coot […]

Highlights of today’s birds: Solitary Sandpiper: 1 Eastern Kingbird: 1, first of the season Chihuahuan Ravens: 1 adult on nest, 5 nestlings Bullock’s Orioles: 3, first of the season Complete List: Wild Turkey: 7 Northern Bobwhite: 3 Great Blue Heron: 1 Green Heron: 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk: 1 Swainson’s Hawk: 2, mom building another nest and […]

Saturday, April 12, found several of us out birding in various places. A group met at the Abilene State Park to work on the privacy fence for the blind and their highlights at the blind were: Abilene State Park, Bird Blind: Black-chinned Hummingbird – 2 males, 2 females Common Raven – 3 in a kettle […]