[texbirds] Some highlights from the Lubbock area today
- From: Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:28:04 -0800 (PST)
Greetings All:
I spent six hours patch birding this morning/afternoon and stumbled across a
few goodies.
At Hillcrest Golf Course - visible from the dirt road along the southern edge -
2 Canvasbacks and 8 Redheads.
Along FM 2641 - both near the intersection with Avenue Q where it becomes
Avenue P - 1 Rough-legged Hawk and 1 Mountain Bluebird.
At the southern end of the Lubbock Country Club neighborhood - 1 Brown Thrasher.
At the upper end of MacKenzie Park - 2 White-breasted Nuthatches and 1 Eastern
Bluebird. At the lower end of MacKenzie Park - 1 Eared Grebe, 1 Wilson's
Snipe, 1 Downy Woodpecker, 1 Eastern Phoebe, 1 House Wren. Also a great look
at an American Beaver swimming upstream from the lake into the river portion of
the park - making sense of the chewed trees along the river.
Along East 19th Street just east of the loop - 1 Greater Yellowlegs in flight,
17 Long-billed Curlews, and 1 Burrowing Owl.
Just below Lake Six - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk.
At Lake Six - 1 female Common Merganser and 2 Common Gallinules.
At Mae Simmons Park - 2 Common Gallinules and 1 Common Yellowthroat.
Also - and this is pretty amazing for February - a double digits species count
for butterflies: Common Checkered Skipper, Checkered White, Orange Sulphur,
Sleepy Orange, Dainty Sulphur, Gray Hairstreak, Question Mark, Mourning Cloak,
Red Admiral, and Painted Lady.
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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