[texbirds] Sabine Woods & Nightjar ID help
- From: Graham Floyd <spcgraham.floyd@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Texbirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 19:19:47 -0500
Sabine Woods was dead apart from mosquitoes late this afternoon, so I tried
out my new scope at Sea Rim State Park hoping for an early Northern Gannet
to fly by.
Returning to Sabine Woods at 6:50pm I doused myself in bug spray and heard
a distant Great Horned Owl. I flushed something that was either an owl or
nightjar, and later either a Chuck-will's-widow or Eastern Whip-poor-will
flew straight at me and banked in front of me, close enough to know it
wasn't a Nightawk. I have only seen Chuck's twice before and Eastern
Whip-poor-will would be a lifer. I heard neither in the last 20 minutes
there. Can I safely call this a Whip due to the late date? I can't pull
up the line graphs on my useless iPad, but know that Chuck's have not been
reported here in over a month and Whip's have been flushed during the day
in recent weeks. Pretty lame way to call a lifer IMO. :/
Graham Floyd,
San Antonio, TX
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