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Date and Effort Thu Aug 15,
2013 1:26 PM Protocol:TravelingParty Size:1Duration:1 hour(s), 42
minute(s)Distance:2.7 mile(s)Observers:
Mike
Austin
Comments:Rain all a.m., gradual clearing throughout
observation period. Reservoir now filled, no more habitat for small or
medium-sized shorebirds. Unidentified long-tailed psittacine (not Monk
Parakeet) seen high overhead. Species
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36 species (+1 other taxa)
total2Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
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1Mallard (Domestic type)
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28Mottled Duck
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3Little Blue Heron
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13Cattle Egret
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8White Ibis
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2White-faced Ibis
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2Roseate Spoonbill
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1Red-shouldered Hawk
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Age & SexJuvenileImmatureAdultAge UnknownMaleFemaleSex
Unknown150Killdeer
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27Black-necked Stilt
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3Greater Yellowlegs
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1Upland Sandpiper
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Heard overhead1Eurasian Collared-Dove
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2White-winged Dove
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28Mourning Dove
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1Common Nighthawk
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25Chimney Swift
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2Red-bellied Woodpecker
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2Downy Woodpecker
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2Monk Parakeet
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1Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
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Heard only,
usual high-pitched single call note1Acadian Flycatcher
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Very green empid, not as lanky as "Traill'"s-type, nor as compacr as
Least/Yellow-bellied. Green of face bled into paler throat, narrow yellow
eyering. Wings gray with two white wingbars. No wing-flicking, a bit of tail
pumping5Alder Flycatcher
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Call note heard1Great Crested
Flycatcher
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1Eastern Kingbird
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1Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
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2Blue
Jay
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4Purple Martin
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9Barn Swallow
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2Carolina Chickadee
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3Carolina
Wren
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13Northern Mockingbird
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30European Starling
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1Louisiana Waterthrush
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Scope views as it fed in the open along a wide gravel road. All
the differentiating field marks of this strikingly marked individual seen
fabulously well.7Northern Cardinal
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13Great-tailed Grackle
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Mike Austin,Friendswood
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