[texbirds] Fwd: Brooks Co. rest stop- Painted Redstart and Western Tanager- Oct 7th

  • From: Marie Stewart <littlebitrv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:18:22 -0500

I was asked to Forward this to Texbirds for Dennis Cooke.
Marie Stewart
Alamo, Texas
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Subject:        Fw: Brooks Co. rest stop- Painted Redstart and Western 
Tanager- Oct 7th
Date:   Thu, 9 Oct 2014 10:22:06 -0500
From:   Dennis Cooke <denniscooke@xxxxxxx>
To:     littlebitrv@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Marie,
I have only been on texbirds for about 8 months now. I have posted one 
other time about a banded plover that I thought would be appropriate, 
but TEXBIRDS
has yet to post any of my emails. I guess I just have not earned “my 
wings” yet.
At a minimum I wanted you to know Kathy and I were successful in seeing 
the painted redstart and saw a lot of first time birds for Kathy. If you 
want to edit the
email below and post our seeing the bird on Oct 7th to texbirds you can.
Thanks for your help,
Dennis Cooke
*From:* Dennis Cooke <mailto:denniscooke@xxxxxxx>
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 08, 2014 2:37 PM
*To:* texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:* Brooks Co. rest stop- Painted Redstart and Western Tanager- 
Oct 7th
Based on Marie Stewart’s posting on October 4th and some additional help 
from her, my wife and I went down to the rest stop about 8 miles south 
of Falfurrias on Hwy 281
to look for the painted redstart yesterday. We arrived at the rest stop 
about 9 AM and found the painted redstart immediately at the south end 
sitting on a barbeque pit on
one of the tables. After watching this bird for about 30 minutes, we 
decided to bird the rest of the area. We stayed at the rest stop for 2 
1/2 hours.
Being new to birding (we started birding in January of this year), most 
of the birds were lifers for my wife- painted redstart, green jay, 
eastern bluebird,
golden-fronted woodpecker, lesser goldfinch, black-crested titmouse, 
couch’s kingbird, and great kiskadee. I have spent a lot of time in 
South Texas over the
years so I had 2 lifers- the painted redstart and western tanager.
You can see these 2 birds and some of the other birds I photographed at 
my flickr site. It is the first 11 pictures.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/69407414@N04/
Dennis Cooke
Dickinson, Tx




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