[texbirds] Tuesday morning birding Hagerman NWR

  • From: Jack Chiles <chilesjack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 21:38:39 -0500

On a rainy day we tallied 68 species.  We were treated to 2 male and 1 female 
Lazuli Buntings which we were able to observe for quite a while and even set up 
a scope and observe them.
The male Bobolinks put on a show as they sang in the vetch which is in bloom in 
the fields.
Canada Goose  47
Gadwall  4
Blue-winged Teal  16
Northern Shoveler  4
Wild Turkey  1
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Great Blue Heron  5
Great Egret  14
Snowy Egret  14
Little Blue Heron  3
Cattle Egret  173
Black Vulture  12
Turkey Vulture  1
American Coot  60
Killdeer  3
Spotted Sandpiper  5
Lesser Yellowlegs  8
Semipalmated Sandpiper  3
Least Sandpiper  9
White-rumped Sandpiper  6
Stilt Sandpiper  1
Long-billed Dowitcher  8
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher  2
Wilson's Phalarope  14
Forster's Tern  2
Eurasian Collared-Dove  5
Mourning Dove  5
Barred Owl  1
Red-headed Woodpecker  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  1
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Western Kingbird  1
Eastern Kingbird  11
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher  11
White-eyed Vireo  2
Blue Jay  1
American Crow  7
Purple Martin  4
Barn Swallow  4
Cliff Swallow  23
Carolina Chickadee  1
Tufted Titmouse  2
Carolina Wren  2
Bewick's Wren  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  2
Eastern Bluebird  10
Northern Mockingbird  10
European Starling  6
Cedar Waxwing  30
Yellow Warbler  3
Lark Sparrow  2
Savannah Sparrow  4
Northern Cardinal  12
Blue Grosbeak  1
Lazuli Bunting  3
Indigo Bunting  2
Painted Bunting  8
Dickcissel  18
Bobolink  35
Red-winged Blackbird  30
Eastern Meadowlark  3
Yellow-headed Blackbird  15     
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Orchard Oriole  7
Baltimore Oriole  1
House Sparrow  4
Jack Chiles
Volunteer
Hagerman NWR

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