[texbirds] Highland Mall Purple Martin roost - Austin

From: "Mira M Pellerin" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "mirampellerin@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:53:39 -0400 (EDT)

David, this email is from Lori Markoff, who used to live in Austin Tx (she 
currently lives in Oregon); she tried to post this to TEXBIRDS but it has not 
shown up.  She is visiting Austin, and would like to share info of PUMA's in 
Austin.
 
Mira M. Pellerin
 
 


 

From: L Markoff [mailto:canyoneagle@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 3:11 AM
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Highland Mall Purple Martin roost - Austin

 
Hi Texbirds,
 
Last night my daughter and I visited the Highland Mall Purple Martin roost in 
Austin.  I have never visited it in early June before and found it quite 
different from the times I observed it in July and August of years gone by.
 
We got there about 8:15 last night and found a couple hundred PUMA flying 
about, widely scattered.  They were not centered in the area of their 
"traditional" roost trees in the parking lot bordering Highland Mall Blvd in 
the vicinity of the Wells Fargo bank.  Instead they roamed around, sometimes 
flying over the buildings fronting Airport Blvd, as well as the new 
construction going on.  At times they would move to the east side of the Mall.  
 
PUMA numbers increased as the evening progressed and by 8:50 or so I could see 
(with my binocular) what looked like a few thousand birds over the east side, 
closer to I-35.  By 9:00 it was getting darker so we drove to the east side to 
see if they might use the trees there for roosting.  We stayed until 9:10, but 
the birds remained high and didn't show any sign of coming down to roost.  
 
Lori Markoff
Eugene, OR (currently in Austin)
canyoneagle@xxxxxxxxxxx
 
 



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[texbirds] Highland Mall Purple Martin roost - Austin

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