Please start sending your posts to texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx hot walk early ...by eleven almost too hot for being out there...today, 106 and tomorrow 108...yes Summer...lots of fledged birds now... first bird of day ...Bullock's on wire...but camera failed twice...grrrrrrrrrrrr Great Kiskadee up on hillside ? but liked posing...this bird has been rare since Spring... http://www.pbase.com/bobsnature/image/144323987 Great Kiskadee Also today, in the parking lot, near it's nest...a Verdin peeeeeeped in a Mesquite... http://www.pbase.com/bobsnature/image/144324177 Verdin Cook's Slough Nature Ctr. (HOTW 025), Uvalde, US-TX Jun 25, 2012 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 3.0 mile(s) Comments: hot hot early...104 today and 108 tomorrow 38 species Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 10 Wild Turkey 10 Double-crested Cormorant 6 Great Blue Heron 2 Green Heron 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Eurasian Collared-Dove 5 White-winged Dove 4 Mourning Dove 10 Common Ground-Dove 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 3 Greater Roadrunner 1 Green Kingfisher 3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2 Ash-throated Flycatcher 1 Great Kiskadee 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 4 Bell's Vireo 3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 20 Barn Swallow 6 Black-crested Titmouse 3 Verdin 5 Cactus Wren 2 Carolina Wren 2 Bewick's Wren 2 Northern Mockingbird 6 Olive Sparrow 4 Lark Sparrow 2 Summer Tanager 2 Northern Cardinal 12 Blue Grosbeak 2 Painted Bunting 10 Red-winged Blackbird 20 Great-tailed Grackle 3 Brown-headed Cowbird 4 Orchard Oriole 1 Bullock's Oriole 1 House Sparrow 20 Have a great hot week! Bob Rasa Uvalde County Reporting Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds