[texbirds] Highlights from west of Lubbock on Labor Day

From: Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 19:58:37 -0500
Greetings All:
I spent a big chunk of Labor Day exploring Bailey, Cochran, and Hockley
Counties.  Shorebirding has definitely improved in the region with our
western counties featuring playas with enough water to attract birds and
enough dry down to let them forage.

I had no Lubbock or Hockley County highlights on the way out in the morning.

Lamb County highlights all came during a stop to look at 4 Black Terns over
Bull Lake - this stop also kicked out 1 Western Wood Pewee and 1 male
Western Tanager.

Bailey County highlights all came from Muleshoe NWR and included: 1
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER/12 Snowy Plovers/15 Least Sandpipers/21 Baird's
Sandpipers/ 7 Semipalmated Sandpipers/12 Western Sandpipers/85 peeps/183
Wilson's Phalaropes/1 Tree Swallow/3 Bank Swallows/1 Sage Thrasher/2
Yellow-headed Blackbirds at White Lakes; 8 Scaled Quails/1 Western Wood
Pewee/2 Willow Flycatchers/1 Dusky Flycatcher/5 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers/1
Gray Catbird/1 Yellow Warbler/2 Yellow-rumped Warblers/3 Wilson's
Warblers/1 immature male and 1 adult male Lazuli Buntings in the
Headquarters/Campground area; 2 White-faced Ibises/1 Northern Harrier/2
adult GOLDEN EAGLES/4 Snowy Plovers/25 Black-necked Stilts/10 American
Avocets/5 Greater Yellowlegs/17 Lesser Yellowlegs/12 Stilt Sandpipers/14
Baird's Sandpipers/1 Pectoral Sandpiper/26 peeps/26 Long-billed
Dowitchers/87 Wilson's Phalaropes/1 Prairie Falcon/4 Northern Rough-winged
Swallows at Paul's Lakes.

Cochran County highlights as morning shifted to afternoon: 5 Northern
Rough-winged Swallows north of Morton; 1 Spotted Sandpiper/2 Western
Sandpipers/1 Black Tern/2 Northern Rough-winged Swallows/1 Northern
Waterthrush/1 immature male and 1 adult male Lazuli Bunting/1 adult male
Indigo Bunting/1 adult male Painted Bunting at Morton City Park; 2 Cinnamon
Teals/18 White-faced Ibises/12 Black-necked Stilts/4 American Avocets/1
Solitary Sandpiper/8 Greater Yellowlegs/12 Lesser Yellowlegs/7 Stilt
Sandpipers/4 Least Sandpipers/4 Baird's Sandpipers/3 Semipalmated
Sandpipers/14 Western Sandpipers/20 peeps/65 Wilson's Phalaropes/1 Black
Tern/1 Olive-sided FLycatcher/2 Western Wood Pewees/1 Willow Flycatcher/10
Northern Rough-winged Swallows/1 Swainson's Thrush/2 Chipping Sparrows/2
Yellow-headed Blackbirds at the Cochran County Golf Course and adjoining
playas.

Hockley County highlights from the afternoon: 4 Black-necked Stilts/3
Baird's Sandipers/12 Wilson's Phalaropes near Opdyke West; 19 Black-necked
Stilts/26 American Avocets/1 Spotted Sandpiper/1 Greater Yellowlegs/4
Lesser Yellowlegs/17 Long-billed Curlews/1 Semipalmated Sandpiper/3 Western
Sandpipers/2 Long-billed Dowitchers/53 Wilson's Phalaropes/1 Say's Phoebe/1
Nashville Warbler/1 female Common Yellowthroat/4 Yellow-headed Blackbirds/2
adult male Bronzed Cowbirds at the Smyer Playa.

Still waiting for a good warbler day but it was a lot of fun.

Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock


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