[texbirds] Re: Snowy Plovers at Windy Point - YES!
- From: Kenny Anderson <kennya290@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Sam Fason <scfason@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:33:20 -0500
This Local Patch Challenge is working to get coverage of some areas that
were under-birded. It's been great to get regular reports from the deeper
water locations in Travis County. I do wonder what does show up on the low
Lake Travis portion of the Lower Colorado. Perhaps closer attention to
Snowy Plovers, which may have have bred at the Windy Point two (if memory
is correct) years ago. They have been successful upstream at the western
shores of the Lake Buchanan portion of the river.
Enjoying the Lake Travis reporting- good photos too,
Kenny Anderson
Austin
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Sam Fason <scfason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I actually sprinted out the door when I saw the post about Snowy Plovers at
> Windy Point on Lake Travis. Funnily enough, I ran into Matt Colbert at
> Hornsby Bend earlier in the morning, and we got on the topic of the
> longspurs out at Windy Point. I threw out the idea that the lake bed would
> be good habitat for some more unusual migrant shorebirds, more wishful
> thinking than prediction or speculation, but Snowy Plover was the one i
> mentioned as a remote possibility.
> I got to the park, and walked the shore for about 30 minutes...lots of
> human activity had me worried, as did a general lack of shorebirds (only 6
> Baird's). But about 35 minute into the search, I spotted the pair running
> down the shore on the eastern side of the lake bed, on the shore that faces
> towards Hippie Hollow. I watched them for almost an hour and a half, and
> they were very photogenic.
> Some pictures here:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8605372842/in/photostream/
> the pair together:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8604271261/in/photostream/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8604270351/in/photostream/
> fluffed up:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8605373510/in/photostream/
> curious about the shutter's sound:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/57637231@N04/8604270967/in/photostream/
> Some other birds of note were two American Golden Plovers and one Common
> Loon still present.
>
> Good Birding,
> Sam Fason, Austin
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