Clapp Park and Lubbock birding for the win!! Go Anthony Go! Makes me miss my
old patch.
Cameron Carver
Oklahoma City, OK
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On Sep 5, 2015, at 16:41, Randy Duncan <osufight@xxxxxxx> wrote:Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at
I did a little personal Ebird research for my home patch Devine Lake
over the last three years. In 2012 I added 33 birds from Sept to Jan....
2013 was 27 birds... 2014 was 28 birds. My big year personal year was 2013
with 171 for the year at Devine under much better conditions than we have had
this year. These numbers indicate that the race is not over, but we somehow
need to play some defense to stop Tony from finding more birds! We need a dry
September to get us some shore bird habitat.I am confident that if the birds
are there Rich will get them, but it is really hard to see birds that are
just not there! I consider Rich twice the birder I am so I expect him to be
around 340 at the end. LOL. I am enjoying watching the race. Randy Duncan
Leander TX
On Saturday, September 5, 2015 1:24 PM, Anthony Hewetson
<fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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