[texbirds] Re: Pollywog Pond today
- From: "Judy Kestner" <jkestner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:39:34 -0500
Truly the most gasp-inspiring day I've had in many years in the Corpus
Christi area.
My aim was Rose Hill Cemetery after I got off work at 4:30, but I didn't
make it through the gates. At the corner of Palm and Lipan Streets there
was a flock of Indigo Buntings and Dickcissels that numbered close to 500.
They were eating the seeds of a tall grass and the brilliant blue, yellow
and rust colored birds clung to the fences, bathed in puddles, strolled on
the ground -- it was like when Mayflies hatch and you are surrounded by
them. Saw one Clay-colored Sparrow among them.
I also birded the Veterans' Cemetery/Harper's Ferry Rd. where I found four
Lazuli Buntings, causing more gasps. The sun was setting so I vowed to go
back today and bring my scope to get the birds behind the fence.
Woohoo!
Judy Kestner
Corpus Christi
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Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 5:54 PM
Subject: [texbirds] Pollywog Pond today
> Greetings fellow blessed birders!
>
> Stopped in at Pollywog Pond for a "few minutes". Three hours later I had
> tallied 18 Warbler species. But that number doesn't tell the entire
> story. I know I am preaching to the choir, but there were dozens upon
> dozens of Indigo Buntings, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Scarlet Tanagers and
> Painted Buntings swirling around me on the paths. I also had a migrating
> group of Common Nighthawks pass over me, which I've never seen before. My
> time there was truly a religious experience. And then I went home, sat
> outside for two hours, and tallied 19 species of warbler.
>
> Susan Foster
> Rockport
> Aransas County
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