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Pectoral Sandpiper, Dunlin at Wastewater; Red Crossbills in Buffalo Gap
Saturday, December 22, 2007, Heidi Trudell and Cole Wild found this Pectoral Sandpiper at Wastewater Treatment Plant. This is a very very late date for a Pectoral; and if you’re interested in what else they saw this cold and windy day, take a look at their Sightings! Also, Mark Cranford from Midland reported a small […]
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December 22, 2007-Jones County
Heidi Trudell and Cole Wild (new birder to Abilene) braved the very cold and very windy outskirts of Abilene in search of anything with feathers: Best bird(s): Wastewater Treatment Plant: Ross’s Goose: 1 Pectoral Sandpiper: 1 (very late date; Cole was able to photograph it) Say’s Phoebe: 2 (very late date) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher: 2 (very […]
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December 20, 2007-Lake Kirby
Highlights: American White Pelican – 50+ Eared Grebe – 15 Horned Grebe – 2 Bufflehead – 2 Common Moorehen – 2 Spotted Sandpiper – 1 Greater Yellowlegs – 2 Lesser Yellowlegs – 1 Least Sandpiper – 3 Bonaparte’s Gull – 4 Sightings by Lorie Black
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Christmas Social, 2007
Big Country Audubon had another wonderful Christmas Social this past December, 2007. And like the 2006 social, I got a little inventive on the captions. Thanks to everyone for making 2007 a great year! Pictures are up at Christmas Social 2007. And, did you know Tom, Toni, Carolyn, and WK found THE rarest bird ever […]
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December 13, 2007-Abilene S.P. and DAFB
Best bird(s) of the morning: Red-shouldered Hawk: 1, DAFB Red-tailed Hawk: 5, DAFB. Best because all were distinctly differently plumaged birds. One was “normal,” one was the white morph, one was a completely dark morph, one had very big splotchy belly band, and the other had no belly band. Wilson’s Snipe: 1, DAFB Red-breasted Nuthatch: […]
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December 8, 2007-Lake Ivie
Best bird(s) of the trip: Hooded Merganser: 2 Common Loon: 12, with one vocalizing Horned Grebe: 8 Sora: 1 Say’s Phoebe: 2 Brown Creeper: 1 Rock Wren: 1 Canyon Wren: 1 House Wren: 1 Marsh Wren: 4 Common Yellowthroat: 1 Complete List: American Wigeon: 16 Green-winged Teal: 8 Mallard: 30 Blue-winged Teal: 15 Canvasback: 5 […]
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Dark Raptor and After Dark Wildlife
I want to share some photos others sent in. These photos and sightings have added another level of understanding about the birds and wildlife in the Big Country. Diane Longenecker, Bird Supervisor from the Abilene Zoo, sent me two photos of an injured dark raptor, the face of which you see here. The photo gallery […]
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December 3, 2007-Abilene State Park & Lake
Best bird(s) of the morning: Red-breasted Nuthatch: 12, or more! It was hard to tell with as many as we saw all over the park. Brown Creeper: 1 near RV camping area 72-74. This area is closed for the winter to campers, but you may walk in and bird the area. Western Bluebird: 6, seen […]
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Bobcat In Nature
The last time I reported on bobcats at Dyess AFB was over a year ago. Yesterday I had the unique opportunity to witness the personal grooming habits of a bobcat hidden in dense riparian habitat. With snow still covering most of the area at Dyess, the ground was well saturated as I walked into a […]
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November 26, 2007 – DAFB
Best bird(s) of the day: Cave Swallow: 1, it’s getting really late in the season to be seeing swallows Rock Wren: 1 in the same place previously found two years ago. Talk about site fidelity Brown Creeper: 1 Complete List: Mallard: 2 Wild Turkey: 13 Great Blue Heron: 2 Northern Harrier: 1 Red-tailed Hawk: 3, […]