[texbirds] Choke Canyon - Sunday, July 28th
- From: "Willie Sekula" <williebird22@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'Texbirds'" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:40:32 -0500
I birded Choke Canyon State Park today with an emphasis on shorebirds. I
parked my vehicle in the parking lot close to 75 Acre Lake (Calliham Unit)
and walked to the lakeshore south of the picnic area. It was definitely a
long trudge which I'm guessing is at least two miles before getting to the
lakeshore and good shorebird habitat. It was worth the death march with a
nice assortment of migrating shorebirds and other birds. I also checked the
Southshore Unit after lunch.
Birds of Note:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 34
Fulvous Whistling-Duck 22
Mottled Duck 16
Redhead 1
Lesser Scaup 2
Wild Turkey 18 (2 hens with 16 poults)
American White Pelican 34
Brown Pelican 1
White-faced Ibis 2
Roseate Spoonbill 7
Osprey 1
Black-bellied Plover 2
Snowy Plover 13
Piping Plover 1
Killdeer 24
Black-necked Stilt 26
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Lesser Yellowlegs 27
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Western Sandpiper 6
Least Sandpiper 800+
Baird's Sandpiper 120
Stilt Sandpiper 7
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER 6
Short-billed Dowitcher 4
Wilson's Phalarope 1
Gull-billed Tern 8 (nesting - 2 pairs feeding 2 different juveniles)
Caspian Tern 1
Black Tern 70
Forster's Tern 88 (including 1 juvenile)
Brown-crested Flycatcher 4
Tree Swallow 1
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD 4 Males
Orchard Oriole 6
Bullock's Oriole 3 (including 1 begging juvenile)
Audubon's Oriole 2
Willie Sekula
Falls City
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