[texbirds] Re: Nelson's Sparrow at Windy Point, Lake Travis
- From: Brush Freeman <brushfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Eric Carpenter <ecarpe@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 12:38:10 -0500
Never mind on the Sedges, looks like our notes crossed....B
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Brush Freeman
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Finca Alacranes., Utley,Texas
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Eric Carpenter <ecarpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Caleb Gordon struck central Texas birding gold yesterday (19 Oct) when
> he found 2 Nelson's Sparrows at Windy Point/Bob Wentz Park on Lake
> Travis late in the afternoon, photographing one of them. Maggie
> Burnett, Ed Fair, Laurie Foss and I were able to relocate one of these
> birds early this morning (20 Oct) in the same area. A couple hours
> later Maggie and I were able to see it in nearly the same spot with
> the help of Kenny Anderson and Suzanne Kho.
>
> Some directions for those that might be interested. If you go to the
> main parking lot/bathroom area at the park ($10 per car entrance fee),
> look perhaps SE or ESE, you will see across the way
> on the shoreline of the far channel a marina that I guess borders Tom
> Hughes Park. If you draw a line from the parking lot to that marina
> and follow it to the near shore on the Windy Point side, you will end
> up in an area that has sedge/vegetation along the shoreline near some
> orange cones. There is a few feet of sedge around the edge of the
> shore that is a bit marshy and the sparrow was seen mousing around in
> that area. There is a white rock in the middle of some of this sedge
> which is near to where we were able to see the Nelson's twice this
> morning.
>
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> Eric Carpenter
> Austin
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