Category: Sightings

  • May 25, 2009 – Abilene, Oakwood Trails

    Highlights: Great-crested Flycatcher Swainson’s Thrush Complete List: Wild Turkey – 12 Northern Bobwhite – 1 heard Great Blue Heron – 1 Green Heron – 1 Mississippi Kite – 5 Rock Pigeon – 3 Eurasian Collared-Dove – 1 Mourning Dove – 6 Yellow-billed Cuckoo – at least 3, maybe more.  They were really vocalizing this foggy […]

  • May 18, 2009 – Callahan & Eastland Counties

    Results of a breeding bird survey, south of Cottonwood, Texas, in Callahan County.  Route ends in Eastland County, near Cross Plains. Highlights: Cooper’s Hawk Chuck-Will-Widow Red-bellied Woodpecker Eastern Kingbird Summer Tanager Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler American Goldfinch, late in the season Complete List for Callahan County: Wild Turkey – 2 Northern Bobwhite – 13 heard […]

  • May 3, 2009 – Abilene – Dyess AFB

    Number of species: 53 Wild Turkey – 2 Northern Bobwhite – 3 Double-crested Cormorant – 1 Great Blue Heron – 1 White-faced Ibis – 3 Turkey Vulture – 2 Swainson’s Hawk – 4 Red-tailed Hawk – 3 Killdeer – 2 Rock Pigeon – 10 Mourning Dove – 50 Yellow-billed Cuckoo – 1 Common Nighthawk – […]

  • May 2, 2009 – Abilene Area

    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 – […]

  • May 2, 2009 – Abilene SP

    Number of species: 20 Turkey Vulture – 2 Mississippi Kite – 3 Mourning Dove – 8 Black-chinned Hummingbird – 3 White-eyed Vireo – 2 Barn Swallow – 2 Carolina Chickadee – 7 Black-crested Titmouse – 5 Carolina Wren – 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 1 Eastern Bluebird – 4 American Robin – 2 Yellow Warbler – […]

  • April 18, 2009 – Abilene – Oakwood Trails

    Number of species: 35 Mallard (Domestic type) – 2 Wild Turkey – 4 Turkey Vulture – 3 Red-shouldered Hawk – 1 Rock Pigeon – 40 Eurasian Collared-Dove – 2 Mourning Dove – 42 Greater Roadrunner – 1 Chimney Swift – 2 Black-chinned Hummingbird – 3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 4 Ash-throated Flycatcher – 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher […]

  • April 12, 2009 – Nelson Park

    Highlights Mallard – 11 (1 pair with 7 ducklings in tow and another pair) Western Kingbird – 1 (FOS) Number of species: 32 Greater White-fronted Goose – 1 Canada Goose – 1 Mallard – 11 Mallard (Domestic type) – 10 Green-winged Teal – 1 American White Pelican – 4 Great Egret – 1 Red-tailed Hawk […]

  • April 11, 2009 – Mesquite Grove Golf Course

    Number of species: 38 Neotropic Cormorant – 1 Great Egret – 1 Turkey Vulture – 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 Cooper’s Hawk – 1 Swainson’s Hawk – 2 Red-tailed Hawk – 2 Killdeer – 2 Rock Pigeon – 10 Mourning Dove – 125 Greater Roadrunner – 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird – 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 6 […]

  • Apirl 5, 2009 – Lake Fort Phantom Hill

    Eared Grebe – 8 Osprey – 2 Dowitcher sp – 50 Least Sandpiper – 8 Am. Avocet – 9 Green-winged Teal – 12 Blue-winged Teal – 6 Cinnamon Teal – 1 Ruddy Duck – 12 Brewer’s Blackbird – 5 Also, Say’s Phoebe (1) at Will Hair Park in Abilene Sightings by L. Black

  • March 28, 2009 – Lake Kirby

    Highlights: Black-bellied Plover Black-necked Stilt Western Sandpiper Bonaparte’s Gull Franklin’s Gull Forster’s Tern Tree Swallow Lark Bunting Complete List: Gadwall  – 28 American Wigeon – 2 Mallard – 4 Blue-winged Teal – 9 Northern Shoveler – 15 Green-winged Teal – 4 Pied-billed Grebe – 2 Eared Grebe – 1 American White Pelican – 40 Double-crested […]