[texbirds] Tuesday morning birding, Hagerman NWR

  • From: Jack Chiles <chilesjack@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 17:15:17 -0600

On a cold morning with ice covering most of the marshes we found 75 species.  
The only open water to speak of was off the end of Sandy Point. There we were 
rewarded with a group of 37 Hooded Mergansers feeding with 11 Red-Breasted 
Mergansers and 93 Ruddy Ducks.  Also seen there were 15 Canvasbacks.  The only 
other open water with a lot of birds was Deaver Pond which contained a good 
assortment of ducks including over 100 Northern Shovelers, 10 Wood Ducks along 
with Hooded Mergansers, Northern Pintails, Ring-necked Ducks, Green-winged 
Teal, Redheads, Gadwalls, Mallards, Lesser Scaup and a Pied-billed Grebe.  We 
also saw a Belted Kingfisher at Deaver.
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Jack Chiles, Texas Master Naturalist and volunteer, Hagerman NWREdit your 
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