[texbirds] Quintana AM Birds September 27th
- From: Ron Weeks <ronweeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:05:50 -0700 (PDT)
TexBirders,
Spent the first hour of the day on the tower at Quintana watching the birds
wake
up. I challenge myself to record 40 species in that hour without leaving the
tower but today I failed to reach that total. But I did have a few interesting
birds. Best were:
White-crowned Sparrow immature - 27 Sep is the earliest ever for the Upper
Coast
somewhat surprisingly
Groove-billed Ani - bird has been present most mornings over the last week,
today was harassing the cowbirds perched in a dead live oak
Mourning Warbler - my first from 20 feet directly above, hard to ID from the
top
but call notes gave it away
Swainson's Hawk - one flew within 10 feet of the tower at my eye level, watched
it fly right to me, very cool
Peregrine Falcon - regular on the railings of the LNG tank railings if you now
where to look
Good Birding,
Ron Weeks
Lake Jackson
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