[texbirds] Re: Redstarts in the panhandle - a potential explanation
- From: txbrush@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: terrverts@xxxxxxxxx, texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:12:13 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Anthony,
According to Seyferrt's book, migrants would not be seen normally until
late August or September. So I'm guessing post-breeding wandering from a very
small local breeding population or displacement, as you suggested. I think
there's more post-breeding wandering than people generally know about. Right
here in the Lower Rio Grande Valley I've recently seen Bewick's Wrens in
particular spots where they don't breed, and Verdins notoriously wander a bit
after breeding. So nothing definitely on my part but that's my $0.25.
Best regards,
Tim Brush
Edinburg, TX
--- On Wed, 6/27/12, Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [texbirds] Redstarts in the panhandle - a potential explanation
To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 9:26 AM
Greetings All:
A prominent local birder has suggested, quite reasonably, that the redstarts
might have been displaced from small breeding populations in Colorado that are
smack dab in the middle of some of the recent wildfire zones. Another
suggestive report would be that of a Yellow Warbler in Hale County from over
the weekend ... though it is possible that the Yellow Warbler is simply a
breeding bird as there have been records from the panhandle before.
I would be interested in what other folk on texbirds thought of this?
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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