[texbirds] Tuesday morning birding, Hagerman NWR

  • From: Jack Chiles <chilesjack@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Texbirds <Texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 16:19:27 -0500

Windy, dusty and extremely dry conditions are not the best recipe for good 
birding but you have to go with what you get.  I am just thankful that the 
conditions were not such last year at this time when we had our bird festival. 
Those of you that attended probably remember the ideal conditions at that time. 
 BUT, the shorebirds continue to amaze with extensive mudflats that evidently 
contain a lot to eat.  I don't know if the Phalaropes are staying are if they 
are continuously coming and going but there have been more than I have ever 
seen at the refuge.  We had at least 2500 Wilson's Phalaropes today and that is 
a very conservative estimate. In the fields near Wildlife Drive and Silliman 
Rd., the Male Bobolinks are showing up in good numbers and are singing along 
with Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Dickcissels and Grasshopper Sparrows. The 
Bobolinks might be here for a few more days. We also had 25 Hudsonian Godwits, 
some of which were feeding in Muleshoe Marsh.
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