[texbirds] Birds at Kleb Woods
- From: "Collins, Fred (Commissioner Pct. 3)" <Fred_Collins@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "1 Texbirds (texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:14:11 +0000
December has been an interesting month at Kleb Woods. It began early with a Nov
26th record for Fox Sparrow, only the second record for the park.
Dec 6, Sumita Prasad came out to present a hummingbird ID program and band
hummingbirds. She managed to catch four. The most interesting bird was the
adult male Rufous which she previously captured here on Oct 26. It had been
banded as a hatch year bird last winter in Florida. It has now been present
here since before Oct 26th. It is the only adult male Rufous at the center. She
also recaptured an adult female Allen's Hummingbird that she originally banded
here on Oct 26th. We spent some time studying this bird and photographing it.
We are now able to recognize this individual and distinguish it from the 3-5
other Selasphorus hummers present. This bird spends most days, particularly bad
weather days, sitting in the Almond Verbena at the front steps of the nature
center and using the feeder on the adjacent porch. She has a full distinct
tight triangle gorget in the center of her throat. She has rufous upper tail
coverts that abruptly meet her green rump and back. The combination of these
two features allows us to recognize this bird. Overall and otherwise she is
typical female Selasphorus. She does have an un-notched R-2 which is her
identifying character, but you would need bionic high speed eyes to see that.
You might get lucky with a photo of her however.
The first Saturday bird walk found a Winter Wren on the Wetlands Trail
boardwalk.
The bird walk this past Wednesday produced another Fox Sparrow, the third park
record and the first record for a rufous-backed form. This bird was on the west
line in a feeding area where a pipe sticks up from the ground. On the same bird
walk we encountered 6 Nutmeg Mannikins at the rosebush on the Draper parking
lot.
This is a good year for Golden-crowned Kinglet with 7 being seen on the past
bird walk.
Fred Collins, Director
Kleb Woods Nature Center
20303 Draper Road,Tomball TX 77377
Harris County Precinct 3
Steve Radack Commissioner
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