[texbirds] Tuesday morning birding, Hagerman NWR.

  • From: Jack Chiles <chilesjack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:09:00 -0600

The bird of the day was an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull.
Sparrow numbers were up.  Geese numbers were down.  Geese are possibly going 
off the refuge to find food during the day. Wheat is almost completely gone. 
Species total for day was 73.
Greater White-fronted Goose  300
Snow Goose  1
Ross's Goose  1
Snow/Ross's Goose  3000
Cackling Goose  26
Wood Duck  4
Gadwall  24
American Wigeon  4
Mallard  70
Northern Shoveler  11
Northern Pintail  20
Green-winged Teal  50
Canvasback  3
Ring-necked Duck  5
Lesser Scaup  7
Hooded Merganser  5
Pied-billed Grebe  6
Double-crested Cormorant  5
American White Pelican  1
Great Blue Heron  7
Black Vulture  14
Turkey Vulture  60
Northern Harrier  3
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  6
Red-tailed Hawk (Harlan's)  1
American Coot  9
Killdeer  15
Greater Yellowlegs  14
Least Sandpiper  5
Long-billed Dowitcher  38
Wilson's Snipe  2
Bonaparte's Gull  2
Ring-billed Gull  250
Herring Gull  6
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1     Observed by Jack Chiles, Wayne Meyer, Gailon 
Brehm, and Ross Rasmussen. Dark mantle with black wingtips, Large red gonys 
spot, bright yellow legs, and larger than Ring-billed gulls in close proximity. 
Also heavily streaked head.
Forster's Tern  2
Eurasian Collared-Dove  2
Mourning Dove  5
Red-headed Woodpecker  4
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  6
American Kestrel  4
Eastern Phoebe  2
Loggerhead Shrike  2
Blue Jay  25
American Crow  19
Carolina Chickadee  6
Tufted Titmouse  1
Brown Creeper  1
Carolina Wren  2
Golden-crowned Kinglet  3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Eastern Bluebird  10
Hermit Thrush  1
American Robin  10
Northern Mockingbird  4
Brown Thrasher  1
European Starling  7
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1
Spotted Towhee  1
Chipping Sparrow  9
Field Sparrow  10
Savannah Sparrow  9
Fox Sparrow  9
Song Sparrow  5
White-throated Sparrow  7
Harris's Sparrow  30
White-crowned Sparrow  30
Dark-eyed Junco  20
Northern Cardinal  12
Red-winged Blackbird  33
Eastern/Western Meadowlark  50
American Goldfinch  15
House Sparrow  2
Jack Chiles
Volunteer, 
Hagerman NWR
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