[texbirds] August 23 Mitchell Lake 4th Saturday Bird Census

From: "Stevan Hawkins" <shawkins4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:39:47 -0500

All:
 

The August 23 edition of Mitchell Lake Audubon Center's
http://mitchelllake.audubon.org/ 4th Saturday Bird Census was done on what
is one of the hottest days of the year.  This census held to that standard.
What I saw was a mixture of absent summer birds, lingering summer birds, and
incoming fall migrants in the process of finding thirty-three species.
Readers may have to note absences in the following list to get a better idea
of what it was like to spend censusing in the heat of the summer.  The
prevailing hypothesis about the lack of hawks of any kind is that the
drought has resulted in a lack of prey.  As to why there weren't any
American White Pelicans in the main lake, I don't know.  The good numbers of
Wilson's Phalaropes and the Reddish Egret, seen by several, were the birds
of the day.

 

Species list:  1.  Black-bellied Whistling-Duck;  2.  Blue-winged Teal;  3.
Least Grebe;  4.  Neotropic Cormorant;  5.  Double-crested Cormorant;  6.
Great Blue Heron;  7. Great Egret;   8. Snowy Egret;  9. Tricolored Heron;
10. Reddish Egret;  11. Green Heron;  12. Turkey Vulture;  13. American
Coot;  14. Black-necked Stilt;  15. American Avocet;  16. Greater
Yellowlegs;  17. Lesser Yellowlegs;  18. Spotted Sandpiper;  19.  Western
Sandpiper;  20. Least Sandpiper;  21. Wilson's Phalarope;  22. Black Tern;
23. Mourning Dove;  24. Common Ground-Dove;  25. Hummingbird species;  26.
Golden-fronted Woodpecker; 27. Western Kingbird;  28. Scissor-tailed
Flycatcher;  29. Barn Swallow;  30. Northern Mockingbird;  31. Red-winged
Blackbird;  32. Great-tailed Grackle;  33. House Sparrow. 

 

Onward to the September 27 edition of the census! 

 

Steve

Stevan Hawkins

Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, docent

 

 



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[texbirds] August 23 Mitchell Lake 4th Saturday Bird Census

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