[texbirds] Re: Eastern Williamson County 12/8/13
- From: steve mayes <sgmayes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "segast23@xxxxxxxxx" <segast23@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 19:51:50 -0600
I can echo Steve Gast's comments. Cattail Marsh in Beaumont is full of
Green-winged Teal right now (1500+). Maybe they have all headed to the coast
with the early cold weather?
Steve Mayes
Nederland, TX
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> On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:38 PM, "Steve Gast" <segast23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yesterday there were 2000+ Green-wing Teal in a portion of Warren Ranch Lake
> on Katy Prairie. This is among the high count numbers for this location.
> There may have been as many as double this number there but I didn't try to
> count birds there that day and many more ducks were in the distance that were
> not identified and certainly more teal would have been among them.
>
> Steve Gast
> Houston TX
>
>> On Dec 8, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Tim Fennell <tfennell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Texbirders,
>> Byron Stone and I birded eastern Williamson County today from 8:00 am to
>> 1:00 pm. Highlights of the 72 species for the morning are below. Lowlights
>> were no Green-winged Teal (normally one of the most common ducks in the
>> county but hard to find the past month-anyone else noticed this around the
>> state or is this a local thing?) and no longspurs despite perfect longspur
>> conditions (cold, cloudy and little wind; scarce so far this winter).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tim Fennell
>> Round Rock, TX (15 miles north of Austin)
>> Travis Audubon Society
>>
>>
>> Hooded Merganser 51 (48 at Meadow Lake, Round Rock; 3 on CR 414 stock pond)
>> Red-breasted Merganser 5 Granger Lake
>> Mountain Plover 30 (8 on CR 360; 22 in field SW of CR 352/Alligator Road
>> intersection)
>> Rock Pigeon 400+ on CR 415 (Maybe not a "highlight" but unusual. This is a
>> difficult species to find around Granger and I have never seen such a
>> massive flock like this in 15+ years of birding the area)
>> Burrowing Owl 1 CR 35
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