[texbirds] Local Patch Challenge
- From: Dan Smith <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds Maillist <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:21:14 -0500
I started this morning about mid-morning by birding the pond at Oak Springs
(shows as Govalle etc. in my patch sites) and then the Colorado River Nature
Preserve. I added several new ones to bring my total to 162. The additions were:
1. Tree Swallow (Pond)
2. Wood Thrush (CRNP and also had a Hermit Thrush there)
3. Roadrunner (CRNP)
4. Red-eyed Vireo (CRNP)
At CNRP I also had a single White Pelican overhead right when I got out of the
car and a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in the Preserve.
After birding Colorado River Nature Preserve and Oak Springs pond, I drove
around by Johnny Morris to check out the plowed fields. Nada. But at the
intersection of Old Manor and Springdale Roads, I noted a large, perched hawk
that I almost just drove by as another Red-tailed because it was not an easy
place to stop and take a better look. I thought better of it and had a lovely
adult male Swaison's (FOS and of patch) light morph. There was a guy on a
tractor mowing the right of way on the other side of the road, and twice this
hawk pounced on something after the mower flushed it. Both items went down
quickly, so I presume insects (perhaps grasshoppers), but I've not seen a hawk
follow a mower before. i thought grackles had that niche cornered.
Dan Smith
dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
512-451-2632
http://www.wordsmithofaustin.com
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