[texbirds] Local Patch - Colorado River Nature Preserve - Austin
- From: Dan Smith <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds Maillist <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:24:25 -0500
This morning I spent a bit more than 3 hours in the Colorado River Nature
Preserve and tallied 45 species.
Highlights were:
Swallows - Cliff (lots - I estimated about 150 in sight at once around the
bridges), Bank, Purple Martin, and Barn
Warblers - Orange-crowned, Nashville (2), Yellow-breasted Chat, Redstart, and
Black-throated Green
Clay-colored Sparrows (3)
2 Singing Summer Tanagers
Baltimore Oriole (1)
Vireos - White-eyed (2), Yellow-throated, Blue-headed, and Red-eyed
Flycatchers - 2 Great Crested, 1 Olive-sided, 1 Yellow-bellied, and 2 Empidonax
sp.
Hummingbirds - 1 each of Black-chinned and Ruby-throated
The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher deserves a note, I think. I tried to get a
picture, but put first effort into identifying and failed at the picture.
However, this is one Empidonax I'm pretty confident of both on the basis of
appearance and behavior. The olive-yellow color was very evident and any other
flycatchers with that sort of coloration should be well west of us in Austin.
Also, it was foraging very low to the ground and fairly deep into the woods
rather than at the edge.
Dan Smith
dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
512-451-2632
http://www.wordsmithofaustin.com
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