[texbirds] Re: 92 sp at Fort Clark; LAGU, TRPA; ebird question
- From: Mary Gustafson <live4birds@xxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 13:06:36 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Bryan
Fort Clark is covered by an old regional checklist that covered all of south
Texas. I have made new individual county filters for several south Texas
counties on the river, and have at times "trimmed" the old regional filter to
better fit the new area it covers. Obviously I missed the Tropical Parula!
The regional filter is not perfect by any means, and I'm always interested in
improving it. Let's talk offline about any other changes that would make the
filter better.
Mary Gustafson
Mission, Texas
-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Calk <bryancalk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, May 12, 2012 11:44 am
Subject: [texbirds] 92 sp at Fort Clark; LAGU, TRPA; ebird question
Hey Texbirders,
Back from College Station, I decided to do a Fort Clark marathon yesterday with
a goal of 80 species.
By the end of the day I had seen/heard 91 species (+empids) with the following
highlights:
Laughing gull (waste water treatment ponds)
Wilson's Phalaropes (same)
9 Warbler species including Tropical Parula and Blackburnian(f)
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting singing his head off
A question about ebird... it has always flagged my reports of Vermilions and
chats... odd because these are two
of the more easily observed species around and our resident chat numbers could
probably break records... yet it did not
flag the Tropical Parula...? I'm sure there's a lot to ebird that I don't know
about, but can someone tell me why it
does this?
Photos:
Tropical Parula:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryan_calk/7182676830/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryan_calk/7182677670/in/photostream/
Blackburnian: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryan_calk/7182665980/in/photostream
Full list for the day follows:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 20
Gadwall 4
Mallard 2
Blue-winged Teal 21
Northern Shoveler 9
Ruddy Duck 8
Wild Turkey 12
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Black Vulture 5
Turkey Vulture 20
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Swainson's Hawk 1
Killdeer 7
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Wilson's Phalarope 300
Laughing Gull 1 (poor photos available...)
Ring-billed Gull 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 4
White-winged Dove 9
Mourning Dove 6
Common Ground-Dove 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Great Horned Owl 4
Barred Owl 1
Lesser Nighthawk 3
Common Nighthawk 1
Chimney Swift 9
Black-chinned Hummingbird 30
Green Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 20
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 8
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Acadian Flycatcher 1
Least Flycatcher 9
Empidonax sp. 8
Black Phoebe 3
Vermilion Flycatcher 20
Ash-throated Flycatcher 3
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Brown-crested Flycatcher 8
Great Kiskadee 3
Couch's Kingbird 2
Western Kingbird 6
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 9
White-eyed Vireo 15
Bell's Vireo 20
Yellow-throated Vireo 9
Warbling Vireo 2
Common Raven 2
Purple Martin 5
Barn Swallow 20
Cave Swallow 7
Black-crested Titmouse 27
Cactus Wren 2
Carolina Wren 9
Bewick's Wren 12
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Swainson's Thrush 1
Northern Mockingbird 8
Long-billed Thrasher 3
European Starling 3
Northern Waterthrush 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
Mourning Warbler 1
Tropical Parula 1 Brilliant adult male, singing, no eye arcs, no necklace.
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 7
Wilson's Warbler 2
Yellow-breasted Chat 32
Olive Sparrow 9
Chipping Sparrow 20
Lark Sparrow 9
Savannah Sparrow 5
Summer Tanager 20
Northern Cardinal 30
Black-headed Grosbeak 1
Blue Grosbeak 2
Lazuli Bunting 1
Indigo Bunting 3
Painted Bunting 16
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Bronzed Cowbird 9
Brown-headed Cowbird 30
Orchard Oriole 1
Hooded Oriole 6
House Finch 20
Lesser Goldfinch 9
House Sparrow 20
Bryan Calk
Fort Clark Springs
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