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September 6, 2006: NE Abilene, Waste Water
Northeast Abilene Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, 6 Baltimore Oriole, 1 Yellow Warbler, 1 Waste Water After a 1 1/2 inch rain Monday, Waste Water had some water, enough to support several hundred Least Sandpipers and yellowlegs: Best bird(s) of the day: Stilt Sandpipers, 6 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 70++ Lesser Yellowlegs, 80++ Least Sandpipers, 175+ Solitary […]
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September 5, 2006: Dyess AFB
Best bird(s) of the day: Nashville Warblers, 2 Wilson’s Warblers, 6 Yellow Warblers, 7 Yellow-breasted Chat, 1 Orchard Orioles, 5 Bank Swallow, 1 Painted Buntings, 4 Least Flycatchers, 3 Empidonax Flycatcher, 2 Spotted Sandpiper, 2 Sharp-shinned Hawks, 2 (fos) Others: Cliff Swallows, 90+ Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, 51 Oriole Species (heard) 4 Dickcissel, 5 (heard) Wild Turkey, […]
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September 4, 2006: Fort Phantom Lake
Best bird(s) of the day: Sanderling, 1 Orchard Oriole, 1 Spotted Sandpiper, 2 Yellow Warbler, 2 Least Sandpiper, 2 Black Tern, 62 Forster’s Tern 4 Long-billed Dowitcher, 5 Black-necked Stilt, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Others: Wild Turkey, 6 Common Nighthawk, 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 8 Barn Swallows, 42 Bank Swallow, 2 Cliff Swallow, 1 Ruby-throat Hummingbird, […]
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Sept. 2, 2006, Oakwood, Kirby, Ft. Phantom Lakes
Oakwood Trails: Best bird(s) of the day: Nashville Warbler, 2 Baltimore Oriole, 1 Others: Wild Turkey, 18 Belted Kingfisher, 1 Carolina Wren, 3 Bewick’s Wren, 2 Northern Cardinal, 6 Hummingbird sp. 3 American Robin, 1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 1 Black-crested Titmouse, 2 Carolina Chickadee, 1 Blue-Jay, 2 Eastern Bluebird, 2 Lake Kirby: Best bird(s) of the […]
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September 1, 2006: Dyess AFB
Best bird(s) of the day: Yellow-breasted Chat, 1 Yellow Warbler, 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 1 Bullock’s Oriole,4 Orchard Oriole, 6 Verdin, 1: first time recorded on base Others: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 33 Western Kingbird,1 Common Nighthawk, 2 Barn Swallow,8 Cliff Swallow, 28 Cave Swallow, 9 Barn Owl, 1 Carolina Wren, 1 Curve-billed Thrasher, 4 Pyrrhuloxia, 2 Lark […]
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August Endings
A little rain and a shift in the wind direction signaled the start of a journey for billions of birds (entire species) to start swarming over the globe.
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Annual Meeting
You are cordially invited to the Big Country Audubon Society’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, September 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the lodge at Oakwood Trails. Bring a brown bag dinner. Soft drinks and dessert will be provided. We will walk the trails, bird around the lodge or just enjoy the air conditioning! In a brief […]
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Bobcats Behaving Badly
Three little bobcat kittens were discovered in a tree next to the Dyess AFB Hospital in mid-August (one of them is pictured above). This story has its beginnings in the spring of 2005 when a bobcat who apparently had no natural fear of humans gave birth to two kittens in the hospital’s courtyard, out in […]
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August Doldrums
Gone is the predawn chorus. No longer do birds defend territories by singing. Most of the neotropical breeders have moved south and migration has started. There’s a quiet stillness in the air. So what’s there to find when birding these days? Plenty! John and I bring you pictures of mid August birding, completed before the […]
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Field Trip to Waste Water
Come join us on our field trip to the Waste Water Treatment Plant Saturday, August 26, 2006. We’ll meet at 7:30 a.m. at the Skillets Restaurant on East I-20. If you want breakfast, come early (most of us will show up about 6:45 or 7:00 for breakfast). Bring hats, water, sunscreen, bugspray, and optical equipment. […]