[texbirds] Lewisville today - good shorebirds
- From: "Keith Lockhart" <keithlockhart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 16:15:22 -0500
I birded Lewisville Lake Park (LLP) and Lewisville Lake Environmental
Learning Area (LLELA) this morning and had a total of 74 species.
Shorebirds were coming thru in good numbers.
Highlights include:
LLP:
Spotted, Semi-palmated, Least, White-rumped, Baird's, Buff-breasted, and
Pectoral Sandpipers. Lark Sparrows and Savannah Sparrows still showing in
good numbers. Also had a flock of approximately 300 Yellow-headed
Blackbirds. A very late Double-crested Cormorant was present and my FOS
Baltimore Oriole. About 1500 Franklin's Gulls were resting on a sandbar.
LLELA:
Saw a pair of Ring-necked Ducks (male and female). Seems late to me but
Pulich reports them as late as 25 May in the Dallas area.
There was a Hooded Merganser female in one of the ponds along the Bittern
Marsh Trail with 7 little ones following her around.
Watched a Cooper's Hawk chase a Lesser Yellowlegs on the river but failed to
make a catch.
Saw Spotted, Solitary, Semi-palmated, Western, White-rumped, Baird's, and
Pectoral Sandpipers; Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Dunlin, Wilson's
Phalarope, and Semi-palmated Plover.
Other good sightings were Ladder-backed Woodpecker and Philadelphia Vireo.
Only warblers were a Black and White and a Louisiana Waterthrush.
Keith Lockhart
Highland Village, TX
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