Hi, all!
Long story short, due to circumstances beyond our control and the continuing
presence of the Greater Scaup on Sugarhouse Pond, the Birder Patrol made a
last minute change of plans and went rarity chasing (and unfortunately I
forgot that we had encouraged those who lived closer to Chachalaca Bend to
meet us there, so we had to do some scrambling to meet up :( )! Thankfully
we found the scaup (but not the Eared Grebe), and had plenty of both
whistling ducks, plus Blue-winged Teal, Ruddies, and coots on the water,
along with lots of stilts along the sides. After that we headed to Hargill
Playa, but not before stopping for a mob of several hundred Fulvous
Whistling Ducks on the "Tri-county Pond" at the intersection of FMs 1425 and
2629! The playa had a Snowy Plover and a few gulls and terns for the day,
but traffic on that little dirt road was surprisingly heavy, so we headed
over to the 1015 Pond, which had several big waders, Dickcissels all over,
and fighting Scissor-tailed Flycatchers! On the way home we stopped for
another mob of Fulvous Whistling Ducks in a field along FM 1015, plus over
30 White-faced Ibis! A few pics can be seen on my Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/marybeth.stowe
Bird List:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
Greater Scaup Aythya marila
Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus
Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus
Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
Great Egret Ardea alba
Snowy Egret Egretta thula
Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea
Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
Green Heron Butorides virescens
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Nyctanassa violacea
White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi
Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja
Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
Swainson's Hawk Buteo swainsoni
Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata
Black-necked Stilt Himantopus mexicanus
American Avocet Recurvirostra americana
Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica
Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia
Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
White-winged Dove Zenaida asiatica
Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
Common Nighthawk Chordeiles minor
Buff-bellied Hummingbird Amazilia yucatanensis
Crested Caracara Caracara cheriway
Couch's Kingbird Tyrannus couchii
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus
Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
Bank Swallow Riparia riparia
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
Lark Sparrow Chondestes grammacus
Dickcissel Spiza americana
Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus
Bronzed Cowbird Molothrus aeneus
House Sparrow Passer domesticus
50 SPECIES
Mary Beth Stowe
Alamo, TX
www.miriameaglemon.com <http://www.miriameaglemon.com>
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