[texbirds] Lake Buchanan (Llano Co.) 4/21/13: 19 Shorebird species

From: Tim Fennell <tfennell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: TEXBIRDS <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
Texbirders,
I birded Llano County from 7:30 am to 3:00 pm today, concentrating on the 
western shore of Lake Buchanan and the county roads around Click. The recent 
rains resulted in a spectacular Bluebonnet display but Lake Buchanan is still 
incredibly low. I'll hate to see it by next Fall if we don't get significant 
rain before then.  The low lake lake level created quite a shorebird migration 
spectacle (by Edwards Plateau standards) with 1000+ shorebirds present at Cedar 
Point Rec. Area. The shorebird numbers below are rough estimates (but if 
anything they are on the very low side) as a Peregrine made passes every 15 
minutes or so that I birded the area and rearranged the flocks frequently. 
Cloudy skies kept temps to 74 F by the time I headed back home to Round Rock 
and the bird song was great all day, seemingly never being out of earshot of a 
Bell's Vireo (and hearing Bell's, Black-capped and White-eyed Vireos singing 
with 20 meters of each other at one spot). A
 great day to bird the Edwards Plateau! Below is a partial list of the 107 
species recorded for the day.

Cheers,
Tim Fennell
Round Rock, TX (15 miles north of Austin)


C= Cedar Point Rec.Area

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck  2 Hwy 261
Gadwall  6
American Wigeon  12 C
Blue-winged Teal  50 mainly C
Northern Shoveler  75 C
Green-winged Teal  200 C
Redhead  2 Hwy 261
Lesser Scaup  12 Shaw Island
Ruddy Duck  2 Shaw Island
Neotropic Cormorant  22
American White Pelican  12 C
Green Heron  3
Osprey  7
Northern Harrier  2
Cooper's Hawk  1
Swainson's Hawk  1
American Golden-Plover  1 C
Semipalmated Plover  1 C
Killdeer  2 C
American Avocet  2 C
Spotted Sandpiper  3
Greater Yellowlegs  20 C
Willet  6 C
Lesser Yellowlegs  200 C
Upland Sandpiper  1 C
Semipalmated Sandpiper  10 C
Western Sandpiper  15 C
Least Sandpiper  30 C
White-rumped Sandpiper  8 C
Baird's Sandpiper  100 C
  peep sp.  200 C
Pectoral Sandpiper  400 C
Stilt Sandpiper  1 C
Long-billed Dowitcher  100 C
Wilson's Snipe  1 Hwy 261 pond
Wilson's Phalarope  15 C
Franklin's Gull  3 Black Rock Park
Common Ground-Dove  2 CR 310/308
Crested Caracara  1 Hwy 261
Peregrine Falcon  1 C
White-eyed Vireo  15
Bell's Vireo  35
Black-capped Vireo  7 CR 315
Verdin  3
Rock Wren  1 Llano Co. Boat Ramp
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1 CR 315
Hermit Thrush  1     CR 315
American Pipit  20  C  
Nashville Warbler  8
Yellow-rumped Warbler  4
Spotted Towhee  2
Rufous-crowned Sparrow  2
Cassin's Sparrow  2 singing at C
Clay-colored Sparrow  25
Lark Sparrow  22
Black-throated Sparrow  8 most singing
Savannah Sparrow  4
Grasshopper Sparrow  1 singing at C
Lincoln's Sparrow  8
White-crowned Sparrow  20
Summer Tanager  8
Pyrrhuloxia  1 singing on CR 310/308
Indigo Bunting  1 Buchanan Dam
Painted Bunting  8
Dickcissel  1 C
Orchard Oriole  12
Lesser Goldfinch  8
American Goldfinch  4
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[texbirds] Lake Buchanan (Llano Co.) 4/21/13: 19 Shorebird species

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