[texbirds] Re: Jaeger and other hi-lites (local)
- From: Stenmead@xxxxxxx
- To: brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx, texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:48:13 -0400 (EDT)
This am I noticed a dark bird, bigger than the laughing gulls, with a non
gull or tern flight pattern zigzaging over the water flying away from me.
Went to get my bins, but could not relocate it. After some thought realized
I had seen that flight pattern before, a parasitic jaeger found on the El
Jardin beach ,near Seabrook, in Nov. of 2010. Wasn't going to post it till
I saw Brush's report.
Stennie Meadours
San Leon
In a message dated 9/22/2012 12:45:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx writes:
After a late start I birded a bit in the Elgin, Carlson, Pleasant Grove,
and Manda areas this morning with just a bit of roadside woodland birding,
I spotted a flying bird I took to be an imm. gull at first but once I got
the bins on it, it was a quite dark jaeger...As it was flying away from me
southward I could not make out much detail...Efforts for even tiny photos
with my little point and shoot w/o a view finder produced only photos of
empty sky...I do not know what species it was and I know nothing about skuas.
That was the major hilite but also had Horned Larks (2), Merlin 1, Bell's
Vireo 1, N. Flicker 1, Y.B. Sapsucker 1 (my FOS), 16 Swainson's Hawks in a
field, 5 Kestrels, 1 Mourning Warbler, several Indigo Buntings and 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Most of my hummingbirds were gone this morning but still have 1-2
Ruby-throats and a dull Rufous.
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