[texbirds] A short visit to Gillespie Co. Woodcock etc.
- From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:16:23 -0600
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I spent 4.5 hr.s visiting habitat on a private property in the N/NW
portion of the above county. Pretty much the standard fare when it came to
birds with the exception of a Woodcock that I flushed while walking
around. I was thinking this might be fairly unusual for there so checked a
few resources (BLOT, Lockwood and Ebird) and indeed it is...In fact the
only record I saw on Ebird for the county was one from south of
Fredericksburg on Jan 11, 2011....I did not spend the time going thru NAB
tho...This may well be the western most Woodcock I personally have ever
seen...As I said before nothing else unusual though a couple of Bushtits
were nice.
I seem quite inept at finding Scrub Jays in the eastern Plateau
region...I was hoping for one today...They used to be such common birds in
the 80's, maybe still are, granted I did not get out and spend time looking
and mainly just made a beeline to the property and back home wishing to
avoid as much of Austin traffic as possible.....But still seems I used to
see them much more frequently flying across the various roads or whatever.
That country is filling up with people so fast...I was startled as to how
fast as I had not been in this particular area in some time.......Put in
lots of asterisks above so maybe Texbirds won't cut off the first line as
it always does (tho the notes come out fine on Siler's or whatever it is
now)
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Brush Freeman
Independent and affiliated Field Biologist
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http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
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