[texbirds] Re: I hope I am not singular in this...
- From: Jay Packer <jay@xxxxxx>
- To: mitch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:11:00 -0600
About my only contribution to this conversation is that after searching
HARD in West Texas counties for three straight days, my wife and I located
a single Red-naped Sapsucker and Brown Creeper in Odessa, TX (Ector County)
and a pair of Yellow-bellieds in Lamesa, Dawson County. (In fairness, our
friends Ryan Shaw has previously located the Yellow-bellieds in Lamesa.)
The two in Ector seemed particularly noteworthy given the conditions. The
creeper was at Comanche Trail and the RN Sapsucker was at the Odessa City
Cemetery.
--
Jay Packer
(sent from my phone)
On Jan 21, 2015 12:53 PM, <mitch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Brush and all,
>
> Very few to no saps here, a few went through early in fall,
> checked the food supplies out and kept going. Much like
> Kinglets, Myrtle and Orange-crowned Warbler, Robin and Waxwing,
> there are only very low numbers of many species here this winter.
> I think they kept going. It is pretty dead out there.
>
> There is little forage, there was no Acorn, and almost no pecan,
> juniper, or hackberry crops, what was there was gone month or
> two ago. The yard Golden-fronts are living on sunflower seeds
> they wouldn't touch last winter. My returning Rusty Blackbird
> is around, and the Louisiana Waterthrush is still visiting
> Utopia Park (5 detections in 23 visits over 7 weeks, so don't
> count on seeing it).
>
> Mitch Heindel
> Utopia,
>
>
> On 2015-01-19 20:39, Brush Freeman wrote:
> > .
> > ...but I have been out many a morning and have observed a near complete
> > lack of sapsuckers in Central Texas this winter...I think I have seen
> > less
> > than 10 despite applying a lot of heavy duty screech owl tape which
> > usually
> > pulls them in easy. ?? Also Brown Creepers. Maybe the sapsuckers
> > are
> > all in the Trans Pecos or just never got down this far....Or over shot
> > and
> > are in Mexico. The lack is just so very noticeable this year.
> > **********************************************************************
> > Brush Freeman
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