[texbirds] Re: Great Day at Sabine Woods
- From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: steve mayes <sgmayes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 21:44:48 -0500
Geeez...I should be down at Petra's/POCO...Willie's report yesterday and
now yours...I am missing the boat..(But darn it I had a Cape May :-)..I
wanted to call a Blue-winged this morning with pathetic views but it was in
dense stuff and I did not hear any chips. Oh well. I very much enjoy the
early Kinglets and my "snapping" Brown Thrasher...And tire of LETE and
Nomenclature discussions. Thank you, Willie and others for providing
sightings reports....I sure wish more reports came out of the NCTX-Central
Texas region. BTW for the hard core birders that really want to get into
genetics, nomenclature, split, lumps etc....Pls. let me remind all there is
Tx-Ornithology...Too many of these good discussions go to FB and Texbirds
where they vaporize within hours, especially on FB.
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Brush Freeman
503-551-5150 Cell
http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/
Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:29 PM, steve mayes <sgmayes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> TEXBirders,
> Land birds may not have been moving through Smith Point on Sunday but they
> definitely were in good numbers at Sabine Woods. John Whittle and I
> tallied 24 warbler species between the two of us of which I saw 23 (missed
> his Yellow-breasted Chat). Most numerous were Redstarts, Black and Whites
> and Hoodeds and perhaps the best was a female Golden-winged Warbler. Other
> warblers seen were Blue-winged, Tennessee, Nashville, Northern Parula,
> Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian,
> Yellow-throated, Palm, Prothonotary, Worm-eating, Ovenbird, Northern
> Waterthrush, Kentucky, Common Yellowthroat, Wilson's and Canada. Other
> birds seen include lots of Empids along with other flycatchers (Pewee,
> Olive-sided, Eastern Kingbird), vireos (White-eyed, Red-eyed,
> Yellow-throated and Warbling) and some buntings (Blue Grosbeak, Indigo and
> Painted). Had Summer and Scarlet Tanager and John had a male Western
> Tanager before I arrived but we could not refind it.
> It was every bit as good as a good spring migration day with, often 4-5
> species of warbler in one tree with several in view at once. Probably as
> good a fall warbler day as I have ever experienced. The birds were
> arriving during the day I think and were very hungray and actively feeding.
> I saw four Redstarts go after the same moth at one point and saw a
> Restart, a Pewee and a Hooded Warbler all go after another. Bad day to be
> a moth in Sabine Woods.
> Combine this with what I understand was a large movement of Broad-winged
> Hawks and Wood Storks in northern Jefferson county today and it seems like
> this was the place to be on Sunday!
>
> Steve Mayes
> Nederland, TX
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