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November 8, 2008 – Lake OH Ivie
Highlights: Wood Duck Thousands of other ducks Hooded Merganser Common Loon Western Grebe Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (a late sighting) Five species of wren! Nine species of sparrow! Complete List: Wood Duck – 2 American Wigeon – 1,000 Gadwall – 48 Green-winged Teal – 18 Mallard – 24 Northern Pintail – 6 Northern Shoveler – 1 Canvasback […]
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November Announcements
November 6, 2008: General Meeting, 7 p.m. Bird Density and Mortality at Windows, presented by Heidi Trudell Please come to our November meeting and hear Heidi Trudell discuss her two-year study on birds flying into windows. Heidi studied bird/window strikes while attending Principia College in Illinois from 2003 to 2005. We are all aware that […]
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November 2, 2008 – Abilene State Park
Highlights: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Brown Creeper, FOS Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 14 Pine Siskins, FOS for the Park Complete List: Blue-winged Teal 2 Double-crested Cormorant 30 Great Blue Heron 1 Black Vulture 22 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove 2 White-winged Dove 15 Mourning Dove 8 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 1 […]
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November 1, 2008 – Haskell-Jones-Taylor County
Haskell County Highlights: Greater White-fronted Goose – 5,000 Snow Goose – 1,500 Ross’s Goose – 6 Canada Goose – 3,000 Cackling Goose – 1,000 Merlin Prairie Falcon Brewer’s Blackbird – 15 Complete List: Greater White-fronted Goose – 5,000 Snow Goose – 1,500 Ross’s Goose – 6 Canada Goose – 3,000 Cackling Goose – 1,000 American […]
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That’s Not a Red-tail!
So there we were Saturday morning, happily cruising along a Haskell County road when perched atop a double utility pole was a hawk-like shape: “Stop the car!” “That’s not a Red-tail!” Screech! Everyone grabs their bins and sees: “Oh, Wow!” We gotta get the scope on this one!” A Prairie Falcon! A life bird for […]
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Late October, 2008
It is our passion to highlight the avian populations of the Big Country, to chronicle their annual migratory movements or to highlight avian behavior. This week’s post covers both situations. With the strongest of cold fronts moving into the Big Country this fall, I captured the frontal passage at Lake Kirby (above). While the cold […]
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October 25, 2008 – Fort Griffin Field Trip
Highlights: Neotropic Cormorant Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Flicker Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, numbers are dwindling fast Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Song Sparrow, FOS A good mix of wintering sparrows (see complete list below) Complete List: Wild Turkey – 26 Neotropic Cormorant – 3 Great Blue Heron – 1 Turkey Vulture – 1 Northern Harrier – 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 […]
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October 24, 2008 – Lake Kirby and S. Taylor County
Lake Kirby Highlights: Common Loon Duck species Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Wilson’s Snipe Complete List: Gadwall – 2 Blue-winged Teal – 4 Northern Shoveler – 5 Redhead – 4 Ring-necked Duck – 4 Ruddy Duck – 2 Common Loon – 1 Pied-billed Grebe – 5 Horned Grebe – 1 Eared Grebe – 20 American White […]
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October 19, 2008 – Dyess AFB, NE
Complete List: Northern Bobwhite – 1 Great Blue Heron – 1 Red-shouldered Hawk – 1 Swainson’s Hawk – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 3 American Kestrel – 2 Killdeer – 3 Rock Pigeon – 54 Eurasian Collared-Dove – 1 Mourning Dove – 15 Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 21 Blue […]
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October 18, 2008 – Southern Taylor County
Highlights: Bushtits And the returning winter species, see list. Semi-complete List (complete for species seen, but not complete quantities) Double-crested Cormorant – 20 Great Blue Heron – 1 Black Vulture – 2 Turkey Vulture – 2 Red-tailed Hawk – 3 (one was a very dark morph) Eurasian Collared-Dove – 2 White-winged Dove – 2 Mourning […]