[texbirds] Re: Nelson's Sparrow at Windy Point, Lake Travis
- From: Rich Kostecke <rkost73@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:19:37 -0700 (PDT)
Paul Sunby and myself had the Nelson's Sparrow this evening (10/21), roughly
between 5-6:30pm. The sparrow was further down (SE/ESE) than where Eric and
others observed it. If you keep going past the white rock (towards a little
inlet with another set of orange cones on its far side), there is the frame of
a dock with ragweed and smartweed growing through it. Paul initially kicked up
the sparrow from the sedges in front of that dock frame. On several occasions
after it flushed, it hunkered down in the vegetation within the dock frame, but
would run back down to the sedges when it had the chance. Several others were
out there chasing the sparrow when I left at 6:30pm.
A few other birds of note were 1 Gadwall, 4 flocks of Sandhill Cranes overhead
(just under 300 birds), 2 Franklin's Gull overhead, and at least 1 Swamp
Sparrow in among the Savannahs and few Vespers.
Rich
NW Austin
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From: Eric Carpenter <ecarpe@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 12:32 PM
Subject: [texbirds] Nelson's Sparrow at Windy Point, Lake Travis
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.
--
Eric Carpenter
Austin
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