[texbirds] American Pipits at Buc-ees
- From: "Judy Kestner" <jkestner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Texbirds" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:19:36 -0600
Yesterday on the way home from Houston to Corpus Christi I spotted a pair of
American Pipits bobbing their tails on the lawn at Buc-ees in Wharton, on US
Hwy. 59. Was angry at husband and did not ask him to stop so I could look.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face....
Judy Kestner
Corpus Christi
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From: "Rich Kostecke" <rkost73@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Texbirds" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2013 2:31 PM
Subject: [texbirds] Lake Travis (Travis County) Black Scoter and other
waterfowl
> Veena Mohan and I birded Bob Wentz/Windy Point Park (NW Austin, Travis
> Co.) from 9-12 this morning (11/2/13). There was a lot of waterfowl
> activity on the lake early on, but many of the birds seemed to disperse as
> boat activity picked up with several rafts of birds sheltering in some of
> the shallow water bays/coves. There was also a lot of activity (ducks
> flying) over towards the dam, on the other side of the spit that juts out
> from Mansfield Dam Park. Below, is our list for the morning. The highlight
> was a female Black Scoter tucked in among the coots that were congregating
> around what is now once again with the recent rains a small island off to
> the south east of the "beach" or "sandbar" area (for those who chased the
> Nelson's Sparrow, just south of where it was last seen). Anyway, I saw the
> scoter around 0945, but it was at a poor angle (sun right in my eyes) and
> the raft it was in was moving out further into the lake. I snapped a few
> photos of the raft in hopes of getting lucky and capturing an image of the
> scoter (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kostecke/10631818485/in/photostream/)
> before I moved to get a better position to view the bird, but by the time
> I had a better position I could no longer locate the bird. We spent the
> rest of our time scanning the various rafts of coots and ducks trying to
> relocate the scoter with no luck. However, I suspect the bird is still
> around on the lake somewhere. While a lot of the ducks were flying around
> (flushed by boat traffic or whatnot), I did not see any really take off up
> and out of the lake area. So, maybe with a little patience, persistence,
> and luck, others will hopefully refind this bird.
>
> Gadwall 42
> American Wigeon 3
> Mallard 11
> Mallard (Domestic type) 2
> Northern Shoveler 18
> Green-winged Teal 17
> Redhead 14
> Ring-necked Duck 8
> Lesser Scaup 6
> Black Scoter 1
> Bufflehead 2
> Common
> Loon 4
> Pied-billed Grebe 4
> Double-crested Cormorant 7
> Black Vulture 6
> Turkey Vulture 17
> Osprey 2
> Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
> Red-tailed Hawk 1
> American Coot 375
> Sandhill Crane 38
> Black-bellied Plover 1
> Killdeer 5
> Greater Yellowlegs 1
> Ring-billed Gull 6
> White-winged Dove 4
> Mourning Dove 7
> Merlin 1
> Carolina Chickadee 2
> Black-crested Titmouse 2
> Carolina Wren 2
> Bewick's Wren 1
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
> European Starling 2
> American Pipit 46
> Sprague's Pipit 1
> Orange-crowned Warbler 1
> Savannah Sparrow 34
> Northern Cardinal 2
> Eastern/Western Meadowlark 4
> House Finch 11
>
>
> Richard Kostecke, Ph.D.
> The Nature Conservancy
> 318 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas 78701
> Email: rkost73@xxxxxxxxx or rkostecke@xxxxxxx
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