[texbirds] Lewis' Woodpecker near Shallowater - YES (Woohoo!)

  • From: Jennifer Miller <foundnatureblog@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: TexBirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 21:21:25 -0600

Hi All,
I meant to get this out earlier today, but time flew. It was a beautiful
day, so I decided to try to find the Lewis' woodpecker off CR 1100 (north
of Shallowater). I was there from 2:00 - 4:!5 pm. I found it fairly early
on, but it did not give me good looks until the end when it was eating and
stashing pieces of pecan into one of the trees. It was active almost the
entire time I was there. When it seemed to settle down for a bit, I turned
to look at some white-crowned sparrows and missed the woodpecker as it flew
into the orchard, which would have provided great looks. I looked up just
in time to see it fly away with a pecan.

While I was there the manager of the pecan orchard and a landowner came out
to make sure that I wasn't poaching animals from the road. Apparently they
have been having trouble with people shooting turkeys, deer, and birds on
power lines. They weren't concerned with me in the least as soon as they
found out I was just birding. If you go out there during a weekday, don't
be surprised if you are approached.

​In addition to the Lewis' Woodpecker, I saw:
Western Meadowlarks
House Finches
3 hawks too far away to identify
Dark Eyed-Junco (Slate colored male)
Northern Flicker
Merlin
White-crowned Sparrows
Loggerhead Shrike​
Great-tailed Grackle
Doves

-- 
Jennifer Miller
Lubbock, TX

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