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November 2, 2007 – DAFB
Best bird(s) of the morning: wasn’t a bird, it was a HUGE dark bobcat slinking up the creek bank and disappearing into the mesquite shrub. Lynn and I both had cameras; but it happened so quick, we only had time to gawk at it. Complete List: Wild Turkey – 19 Northern Bobwhite – 23 Double-crested […]
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Blog Overload
Well, I’ve gone and done it. I’ve birded and taken so many pictures the past couple of weeks that I now have close to 200 pictures for show and tell. But because I’m a nice guy I’ll condense the collection to fifty. No, I don’t have time for that many either. So here’s the succinct […]
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October 27, 2007 – Area Lakes
Highlights From SeaBee Park American Coot – numerous Redhead – 15 Canvasback – 4 Gadwall – 3 House Wren – 1 Orange-crowned Warbler – 1 Common Yellowthroat – 1 Song Sparrow – 2 Highlights From Lake Ft Phantom: Snowy Egret – 3 Great Egret – 1 Greater Yellowlegs – 1 Lesser Yellowlegs – 4 Osprey […]
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October 27, 2007 – Cedar Gap Farm and Southern Taylor County
Highlights from Cedar Gap Farm: Red-breasted Nuthatch – 2 Blue-headed Vireo – 1 From Southern Taylor County, along CR 131, 133, 134, and connecting roads: Ruddy Duck – 8 Great Blue Heron – 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 American Kestrel – 8 Merlin – 1 Sandhill Cranes – 25 Mourning Dove – 50 Common Ground […]
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October 26, 2007 – Southern Taylor County
After counting quail all week for TPWD, I did a little birding in Southern Taylor County along County roads 194, 195, 196, 184, and 207. Best bird(s) of the day: Various ducks at Graham Lake on CR 207 – see list below Merlin – 1, with his catch of the day Sora – 1 Bushtit […]
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October 13, 2007 – Lake McCarty Field Trip
En route (Callahan Co) Snowy Egret – 75 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 20 American Kestrel – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 1 Loggerhead Shrike – 1 Blackbird species – 100+ Mourning Dove – 15 European Starling – numerous Cattle Egret – 65 Dowitcher species – 28 Near Albany Chihuahuan Raven – 2 Black Vulture – 2 Turkey […]
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October 7, 2007 – Lake Fort Phantom Area
Nothing really surprising, but here’s a list: SeaBee Little Blue Heron – 1 Great Egret – 1 Cattle Egret – 6 Pied-billed Grebe – 4 Lk Ft Phantom Spillway Lesser Yellowlegs – 50 Greater Yellowlegs – 3 White-faced Ibis – 12 Great Egret – 6 Snowy Egret – 2 Cattle Egret – 10 Black-necked Stilt […]
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Lynn Barber to Speak November 1, 2007
Lynn Barber will tell us how she saw 522 bird species in 2005, creating a new Texas Big Year record! She will show pictures of some of the birds seen and the sites visited. During that year, she drove more than 90,000 miles from forest to canyons to grasslands and beaches in her quest to […]
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October 4, 2007-DAFB
Best bird(s) of the morning: Warblers continue to trickle through the riparian areas on Base Orange-crowned Warbler: 5 Nashville Warbler, 4 Yellow Warbler, 1 Common Yellowthroat, 1 Clay-colored Sparrow: 4 Lincoln’s Sparrow (FOS): 1 Complete List: Northern Bobwhite, 3 Swainson’s Hawk: 1 Great Egret: 6 overhead Rock Pigeon, 4 Mourning Dove, 5 Eastern Phoebe, 1 […]
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September’s Magic
It was that kind of morning; a dark foggy cool morning, just right for staying in bed and getting some extra shut-eye. But after the birding-side of my brain argued with the sleepy-side of my brain, I arrayed myself in birding attire, grabbed the binoculars, and headed out the door. A few minutes later I […]