Highlights: Bold is only emboldened to note some of the gentle reminders that the first few snowflakes of the spring migration blizzard are upon us. Vermilion Flycatcher – 1, first year male Bewick’s Wren -1 Black-crested Titmouse – 4 Northern Mockingbird Song Sparrow – 1 Mourning Dove Northern Cardinal – 3 Gadwall Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal […]

Sea Bee Park: Highlights: Cinnamon Teal Northern Pintail Neotropic Cormorant Great Egret Snowy Egret Vermilion Flycatcher, first-year male Complete List: Gadwall – 7 Cinnamon Teal – 1 Northern Shoveler – 35 Northern Pintail – 6 Green-winged Teal – 55 Bufflehead – 12 Pied-billed Grebe – 5 Neotropic Cormorant – 1 Double-crested Cormorant – 10 Great […]

Big Country Audubon’s Wild Goose Chase to Haskell County was attended by Carolyn Wiggins, Charline Wheeler, Linda Beyer and Dan Symonds.  Winchester Lake, where we had captured the awesome video for the membership meeting in November, was dry. However, we were still able to see hundreds of geese feeding in fields and flying in large […]

Highlight: Common Goldeneye,  female Complete List (fairly standard winter sightings): Gadwall  –   32 Mallard   -  12 Northern Shoveler  –   12 Green-winged Teal  –   35 Common Goldeneye  –   1 Ruddy Duck  –   2 Pied-billed Grebe  –   9 Eared Grebe  –   55 Double-crested Cormorant  –   27 Great Blue Heron  […]

Abilene State Park Highlights: Wood Duck Brown Creeper Complete list: Wood Duck – 2 Great Blue Heron – 2 Black Vulture – 6 Red-shouldered Hawk – 1 Mourning Dove – 2 Downy Woodpecker – 1 Eastern Phoebe – 1 Blue Jay – 2 Carolina Chickadee – 7 Black-crested Titmouse – 11 Brown Creeper – 1 […]

Highlight: Vermilion Flycatcher, 1 young male found Jan 1 and still present White-faced Ibis – 1 juvenile Complete List: Gadwall – 10 Northern Shoveler – 52 Northern Pintail – 1 Green-winged Teal – 14 Bufflehead – 4 Pied-billed Grebe – 3 Snowy Egret – 2 White-faced Ibis – 1 Northern Harrier -  1 American Coot […]

This is the complete list of species seen on the 2008 Christmas bird count conducted January 3, 2009.  Our number of species was down probably due to the lack of recent rainfall.  Duck numbers were also low, with some area ponds completely void of ducks.  We did not have access to some private and government […]