Greetings All:
Rich Kostecke ended July with 134 species of bird at Devine Lake. He noted
that Devine Lake was stupefyingly slow during August which would explain
his addition, during the month, of only two species (Black-and-white
Warbler and Bell's Vireo) to the site list and his end-of-month total of
136 species.
My Clapp Park site, on the other hand was kicking (despite a poorer than
expected shorebird list due to very odd water conditions this year) and I
added twenty-two species (Virginia Rail, Ruby-thorated Hummingbird, Bank
Swallow, Black-headed Grosbeak, Great Horned Owl, Broad-tailed Hummingbird,
Least Flycatcher, Long-billed Dowitcher, Loggerhead Shrike, Western
Tanager, Plumbeous Vireo, Baird's Sandpiper, Townsend's Warbler, Upland
Sandpiper, Lark Bunting, Blackburnian Warbler, Summer Tanager, Lazuli
Bunting, Gray Flycatcher, Brewer's Sparrow, Dusky Flycatcher, and Calliope
Hummingbird), bringing my site list for 2015 up from 143 to 165.
A twenty-nine species seems pretty commanding but I wouldn't put it past
Kostecke to pull out a miracle migrant day or two and, unless we get water,
Clapp Park may be pretty bland during late fall/early winter.
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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