[texbirds] Re: Fall shorebird migration, Corpus Christi
- From: Jim Hailey <irasciblej@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx" <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:53:07 -0500
No Hornsby is not closed. Birdied there last Sunday. Stop making statements you
can't back up
Sent from my iPhone Jim Hailey
On Jun 28, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Mel: I think it often far easier at inland locations tike turf farms
> and WWTFs to detect that early fall migration. I just got to Port
> O'C yesterday and noted a handful migrant shorebirds but would have no
> idea as to if they have been here the entire time I was away or not.
> As I have posted previously, at least bak in my Hornsby days, the
> first migrants began trickling in around July 3-4. I would be curious
> of that is still the case, but I think the place is closed due to the
> compost fire (?)
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> Brush Freeman
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> Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
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>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Mel Cooksey <cooksey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It is not always easy to determine if a shorebird is a migrant
>> or simply a summering individual. It is possible to see just
>> about any species in the Coastal Bend in summer in ones
>> and twos. This morning there were at least FOURTEEN
>> Marbled Godwits in the Cayo del Oso, seen from the Hans
>> and Pat Suter park boardwalk on Ennis Joslin Drive.
>> These are fall migrants, and they are right on time, from my
>> experience. I have found a single MAGO here and there
>> during June, but small flocks at this time are tell-tale migrants.
>> Over the weekend, we might look for Short-billed Dowitcher, Semi-
>> palmated Sandpiper, and maybe Stilt Sandpiper.
>>
>> Mel Cooksey
>> Corpus Christi
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