[texbirds] Good stuff in Lubbock this evening - 9/17/13
- From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:46:58 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings All:
I spent three hours (4:40 to 7:40) birding Clapp Park this evening (partly in
the company of Steve Collins - who, of course, put us on the best bird of the
day.
I managed to tally 42 species of bird, including the following highlights: 6
Great Egrets, 37 Snowy Egrets, 1 Green Heron, 3-4 Yellow-crowned Night Herons,
1 Olive-sided Flycatcher, 2 Western Wood Pewees, 1 Willow Flycatcher, 4 Least
Flycatchers, 1 unidentified myiarchid flycatcher, 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 3
Nashville Warblers, 1 female Common Yellowthroat, 2 Yellow Warblers, 18
Wilson's Warblers, 2 first fall male Black-headed Grosbeaks, 1 first fall
Indigo Bunting, 1-2 female Orchard Orioles, 1 incredibly bright first year male
Baltimore Oriole, and 3 immature/1 female/4 male Bullock's Orioles. Quite a
few of these birds were seen by Steve and I think he may have had a few I
missed - e-bird will sort that out by the time I file the monthly report.
Plus the bird of the day [seen equally well (or equally poorly) by Steve
Collins and my own self] - a (based on my look and the three field guides I had
with me or in my car - National Geographic, Sibley, and Peterson Warbler) first
fall MOURNING WARBLER. This bird was flushed from thick cover at the southwest
corner of the main playa (during which time we formed an impression of size,
shape, and proportions - with scattering Wilson's Warblers and buntings as
comparison) into the lower branches of the tree overhanging the collecting
basin at this corner. It perched briefly, during which time we got passable
looks at the head and, in my case, wings and body. It then disappeared and, as
is common with this species, was thenceforth unfindable. A large, heavy-bodied
warbler - oliveish above, yellowish below with it's hood reduced to a smear
ventrally. My 'feeling' is that the throat was not particularly pale. There
was no evidence of white
crescents above or below the eye - at best a very thin pale ring almost
encircling the eye - not the bold ring of a Connecticut Warbler, not the
crescents or suggested crescents of a MacGillivray's.
There are twenty previous records of the species in our region - with ten of
the records during second halves of Septembers and first halves of October
scattered from 1977 to 1985 and from 2000 to 2011. The species was not
tracked between 1986 and 1999 for some reason.
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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