[texbirds] Common Ravens on Bluffstone Drive - Austin
- From: Dan Smith <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Maillist" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:44:30 -0500
I had started out to locate St. Edward's Park in NW Austin since I'm meeting
someone there Sunday and I was not familiar with this park. Made a mistake and
went straight across at the Spicewood Springs Rd. & 360 intersection and wound
up on Bluffstone Drive. Crossing the bridge just west of 360, I noted a very
large black bird on the wire to the right. I stopped just across the bridge and
got out with binocular to confirm that it was a Common Raven. It shortly flew
down the wash to the north. I turned on Bluffstone Cove to turn around and
observed two Common Ravens flying away and over the office or apartment
buildings on the left. I presume it's a pair. I am well acquainted with this
species, having observed them first in Yellowstone in 1978, often during
consulting gigs in Colorado and Wyoming during the early 1980s, and on almost
all of more than a dozen trips to Big Bend and Guadalupe Mts. National Parks,
in the Davis Mountains multiple times, and occasionally in Central Texas over
the years, including one in my area on the 2011 Christmas Count. I subsequently
found the park where it was supposed to be on Spicewood Springs Road. If I
hadn't made the mistake, I would not have added this species today to my patch
list. It brings me to 146 to date.
Dan Smith
dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
512-451-2632
http://www.wordsmithofaustin.com
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