Highlights:

• Tri-Colored Heron
• Peregrine Falcon
• Snowy Plover
• Tri-colored Heron
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Eastern Kingbird
• Nashville Warbler
• Yellow Warbler

Lake Fort Phantom Hill / SeaBee Park

• Cinnamon Teal – 2
• Great Blue Heron – 3
• Great Egret – 8
• Snowy Egret -  12
• Tri-colored Heron – 1
• Cattle Egret: 14
• Green Heron – 5
• White-faced Ibis – 1
• Swainson’s  Hawk – 3
• Red-tailed Hawk – 1
• Peregrine Falcon – 1 (chasing shorebird)
• American Coot – 32
• Killdeer – 4
• Black-necked Stilt – 4
• American Avocet – 2
• Greater Yellowlegs – 1
• Spotted Sandpiper – 1
• Long-billed Curlew – 1
• Long-billed Dowitcher – 16
• Franklin’s Gull – 11
• Ring-billed Gull – 1
• Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 1
• Western Kingbird – 8
• Eastern Kingbird – 1
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 6
• N Mockingbird – 12
• Curve-billed Thrasher – 4
• Yellow Warbler – 1
• Chipping Sparrow – 30
• Clay-colored Sparrow – 30
• Lark Sparrow – 7
• Northern Cardinal – 12
• Blue Grosbeak – 1
• Painted Bunting – 6
• Red-winged Blackbird – 15
• Bullock’s Oriole – 4

Kirby Lake

• Ruddy Duck – 12
• Pied-billed Grebe – 1
• Eared Grebe – 1
• Great Blue Heon – 5
• Great Egret – 3
• Snowy Egret – 4
• Green Heron – 6
• White-faced Ibis – 6
• Sora – 1
• Common Moorhen – 5
• American Coot – 40
• Snowy Plover – 1
• Killdeer – 4
• Black-necked Stilt – 8
• American Avocet – 3
• Spotted Sandpiper – 3
• Western Sandpiper – 2
• Least Sandpiper – 8
• Long-billed Dowitcher – 2
• Franklin’s Gull – 6
• Ring-billed Gull – 2
• Forster’s Tern – 3
• Western Kingbird – 3
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 5
• Cliff Swallow – 75
• Barn Swallow – 25
• Red-winged Blackbird – 8
• Yellow-headed Blackbird – 1
• Brewer’s Blackbird – 1

Cedar Gap Farm

• Wild Turkey – 6
• Black-chinned Hummingbird – 5
• Eastern Phoebe – 1
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 2
• Purple Martin – 1
• Carolina Chickadee – 3
• Black-crested Titmouse – 1
• Bewick’s Wren – 1
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
• American Robin – 3
• N Mockingbird – 2
• Lincoln’s Sparrow – 2
• Indigo Bunting – 2
• Painted Bunting – 8
• Pine Siskin – 12

Abilene State Park

• Black Vulture – 2
• Turkey Vulture – 4
• Mississippi Kite – 1
• Western Kingbird – 4
• White-eyed Vireo – 1
• Yellow-throated Vireo – 1
• Blue Jay – 2
• Carolina Chickadee – 4
• Black-crested Titmouse – 2
• Carolina Wren – 1
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1
• Eastern Bluebird – 2
• American Robin – 4
• Nashville Warbler – 1
• Yellow Warbler – 3
• Summer Tanager – 2
• Chipping Sparrow – 12
• Bullock’s Oriole – 1
• Pine Siskin – 8

Will Hair Park

• Rock Pigeon – 1
• Eurasian Collared-Dove – 3
• White-winged Dove – 6
• Mourning Dove – 4
• Inca Dove – 2
• Great Crested Flycatcher – 2
• Western Kingbird – 2
• White-throated Sparrow – 1
• White-crowned Sparrow – 6
• N Cardinal – 4
• Indigo Bunting – 1

Sightings by Kathy Hampton and Lorie Black

North Abilene

• Barn Swallow – 1
• Lesser Goldfinch – 12