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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 […]
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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 […]
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March Birding Madness: County Firsts!
The last week of March has revealed some incredibly out-of-range birds in the Big Country. What is likely a Taylor County first is this Hooded Oriole, showing up at a nectar feeder at a northeast Abilene residence on March 24, 2009: Photo by LgPacker Hooded Orioles are normally found along the Rio Grande, in southern […]
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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 […]
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February 23, 2009 – SeaBee Park
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 […]
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February Announcements
February 5, 2009: General Meeting, 7 pm Sooty Tern Strangers to the Ground: The Birds of Tern Island, Hawaii presented by Matthew York Matthew York is a graduate of Baylor University. He did his Masters’ work for Sul Ross State University concentrating on life ecology of Montezuma Quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae) in the Davis Mountains, Texas. […]
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January 29, 2009 – Lake Ft. Phantom Area
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 […]
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January 17, 2009 – Haskell County Field Trip
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 […]
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A Dove and a Pelican
Two bird occurrences made news here at BCAS this past week: First, the rare sighting of a Ruddy Ground-Dove was reported in Tom Green County: Kudos to Don (who’s identity will remain protected); he found the bird in his backyard hanging out with the Inca Doves. Also, over at Ocellated, there are some excellent first […]
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January 15, 2009 – Lake Kirby
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 […]