[leasbirds] Re: McAlister Park

From: Nancy Neill <nancy.m.neill@xxxxxxxxx>
To: leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:35:41 -0500

Great list!

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 5:54 PM Jennifer Miller <foundnatureblog@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

McAlister is hopping with ducks and water birds! List is below.

Also found this sign as I was leaving. I know they’ve been planning it for
awhile but it would be great if we could be involved. This is a great
birding spot for many of us.

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McAlister Park, Lubbock
Oct 28, 2020
3:55 PM
Traveling
1.60 miles
96 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: Overcast with the sun coming out in the last 20-30 min. Calm to
snowing and breezy. Mid 30’s. My numbers are likely very much an
undercount. The north playa had so many ducks.
Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 2.3 Build 2.3.7

70 Cackling Goose
20 Canada Goose
60 Northern Shoveler
80 Gadwall
1 American Wigeon -- Male
20 Mallard
8 Northern Pintail -- Males and 1 female
30 Canvasback -- Males and females
60 Redhead -- Males and females
4 Ring-necked Duck -- 2 males and 2 females
50 Lesser Scaup
26 Bufflehead -- Males and females
3 Hooded Merganser -- 2 females and 1 male
18 Ruddy Duck -- One with a reddish brown cap, white cheek with just a
little bit of a black line crossing the cheek. Lighter overall than the
other Ruddy’s.
1 Pied-billed Grebe
3 Eared Grebe
20 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
4 Mourning Dove
38 American Coot
8 American Avocet
2 Killdeer -- Heard by 327 and saw on along the N playa
5 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Franklin's Gull
26 Ring-billed Gull
1 Double-crested Cormorant
4 Great Blue Heron
1 Northern Harrier -- Immature
2 Red-tailed Hawk -- Distant, but looked like a dark morph. Another -
unhappy light morph adult being dive bombed by a male Kestrel. Moved to the
top of another conifer.
1 Belted Kingfisher -- Heard calling by 327 but couldn’t find in the trees
1 American Kestrel -- Male dive bombing a very unhappy Red-tail that
eventually moved to another tree.
1 Blue Jay -- Heard
3 European Starling
12 Great-tailed Grackle -- 1 female eating something that had been killed
and torn into at least 2 pieces.

Number of Taxa: 33

Jennifer Miller
Lubbock, TX

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