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Field Trip: Lake Colorado City, January 19, 2008
Join us for our field trip to Lake Colorado City State Park, Saturday, January 19, 2008. We will leave from the What-a-Burger at South 1st and Pioneer at 7:30a.m. Come earlier to order breakfast and carpool. Dress for the weather, bring water, snacks, and money for lunch. CCSP charges an entrance fee but several of […]
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January 13, 2008-Area Highlights
Will Hair Great Kiskadee – 1 SeaBee Park Great Egret – 2 White-faced Ibis – 17 Redhead – 75 Ring-necked Duck – 19 Lesser Scaup – 4 Lake Ft Phantom Hill Greater Yellowlegs – 2 Least Sandpiper – 12 Forster’s Tern – 1 Kirby Lake Am White Pelican – 25 Eared Grebe – 25 Hooded […]
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I Love Bluebirds
Eastern Bluebirds are loved for their brilliant plumage, their tameness, and their preference for nesting boxes. Many people view bluebirds as a symbol of representing all that is good in the world. I think I’ll have to agree. Bluebirds make me happy and I wanted to share some happiness with you today.
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January 12, 2007-Dyess AFB
Wild Turkey: 15 Great Blue Heron: 1 Red-tailed Hawk: 1 Merlin: 1 Ring-billed Gull: 5 Rock Pigeon: 5 Mourning Dove: 6 Golden-fronted Woodpecker: 4 Ladder-backed Woodpecker: 3 Blue Jay: 4 American Crow: 2 Black-crested Titmouse: 1 Eastern Bluebird: 5 Northern Mockingbird: 10 European Starling: 25 Yellow-rumped Warbler: 1 Canyon Towhee: 2 White-crowned Sparrow: 5 Northern […]
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January 8-10, 2008 Area Highlights
Here are some area highlights: Wastewater, January 8: Cinnamon Teal: 3 Pectoral Sandpiper: 1 Dunlin: 1 Sightings by Heidi Trudell and Laura Packer Dyess AFB, January 9 Eastern Towhee: 1 Sightings by Laura Packer Willhair Park, January 10 Great Kiskadee: heard around 9:20ish as it called approximately eight times. It kept calling “dee, dee” but […]
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January 5, 2008-Field Trip to Robert Lee
The scheduled field trip to Lake Hamlin quickly turned into a chase for the Golden-crown Sparrow near Robert Lee since several members needed it for their life list. Two members added the sparrow to their life list, making for a successful chase. We then went back to Buffalo Gap, looking for but not finding the […]
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January 1, 2008-Area Highlights
Highlights of New Year’s Day birding: Buffalo Gap: Red Crossbills Abilene State Park: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-breasted Nuthatch Mountain Bluebird (at entrance to Lake Abilene) Sightings by Lorie Black and Joan Howard Dan Symond’s New Year’s Day Sightings: First bird of the New Year: Great Horned Owl – 1 Flew across 277 south of […]
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December 30, 2007 – Kirby Lake
Best bird(s) of the day: Common Goldeneye: 1 Hooded Merganser: 2 Common Moorehen: 1 Sedge Wren: 1 Common Yellowthroat: 1 Complete List: Gadwall: 10 American Wigeon: 20 Blue-winged Teal: 1 Northern Shoveler: 1 Northern Pintail: 1 Green-winged Teal: 2 Bufflehead: 7 Common Goldeneye: 1 Hooded Merganser: 2 Pied-billed Grebe: 12 Eared Grebe: 25 American White […]
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Oh My Deer!
Some one once asked me if we saw other wildlife (other than birds) when on field trips. Yes we do! Many of our members were in the field in November and some of you sent in photos of your encounters such as this beautiful doe seen in Callahan County by Jay Capra. During the field […]
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December 29, 2007-Christmas Bird Count
Complete List (113 species total) of Birds Seen on Christmas Bird Count: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck: 24 Canada Goose: 6 American Wigeon: 34 Gadwall: 70 Green-winged Teal: 29 Mallard: 129 Northern Pintail: 32 Northern Shoveler: 16 Canvasback: 1 Ring-necked Duck: 46 Lesser Scaup: 6 Bufflehead: 17 Common Goldeneye: 1 (cw) Hooded Merganser: 7 Wild Turkey: 80 Northern […]