Hello all,
Summer doldrums, you say? Nah. I don't think there is such a thing.
Tonight, 28 June, I made a point of taking an informal inventory of egrets
and herons nesting and roosting on the bald cypress island at Leroy Elmore
Park in Lubbock. I was a little surprised by the numbers of Snowy Egrets,
just about 40. Cattle Egrets are the most numerous species here and I sort
of lost count at about 200. There were a few stragglers coming in up
through 9:30 PM, though most were in by 9:00 PM. Others included about 15
Great Egrets and about 26 Black-crowned Night-Herons. No Great Blues or
stop-press rarities.
Among 8 total cormorants were an adult and immature Neotropic.
Three Mississippi Kites were diving for dragonflies just above the water
until after 9:15 PM. Pretty neat behavior and much later than I'd expect
them to be out.
There was little else of interest within Lubbock city limits this
afternoon/evening.
Keep cool and keep birdin',
Justin Bosler
currently in Lubbock, TX
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