[texbirds] Re: [leasbirds] Good stuff in Lubbock this evening - 9/17/13

  • From: Cameron Carver <c.o.carver@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:24:44 -0500

As I've seen this happen on more than one occasion in fall, did you eliminate 
Common Yellowthroat when coming to the Mourning Warbler ID?
Cameron Carver
Lubbock, TX

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On Sep 17, 2013, at 21:46, Anthony Hewetson <terrverts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings All:
> 
> I spent three hours (4:40 to 7:40) birding Clapp Park this evening (partly in 
> the company of Steve Collins - who, of course, put us on the best bird of the 
> day.
> 
> I managed to tally 42 species of bird, including the following highlights: 6 
> Great Egrets, 37 Snowy Egrets, 1 Green Heron, 3-4 Yellow-crowned Night 
> Herons, 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher, 2 Western Wood Pewees, 1 Willow Flycatcher, 
> 4 Least Flycatchers, 1 unidentified myiarchid flycatcher, 1 Ruby-crowned 
> Kinglet, 3 Nashville Warblers, 1 female Common Yellowthroat, 2 Yellow 
> Warblers, 18 Wilson's Warblers, 2 first fall male Black-headed Grosbeaks, 1 
> first fall Indigo Bunting, 1-2 female Orchard Orioles, 1 incredibly bright 
> first year male Baltimore Oriole, and 3 immature/1 female/4 male Bullock's 
> Orioles.  Quite a few of these birds were seen by Steve and I think he may 
> have had a few I missed - e-bird will sort that out by the time I file the 
> monthly report.
> 
> Plus the bird of the day [seen equally well (or equally poorly) by Steve 
> Collins and my own self] - a (based on my look and the three field guides I 
> had with me or in my car - National Geographic, Sibley, and Peterson Warbler) 
> first fall MOURNING WARBLER.  This bird was flushed from thick cover at the 
> southwest corner of the main playa (during which time we formed an impression 
> of size, shape, and proportions - with scattering Wilson's Warblers and 
> buntings as comparison) into the lower branches of the tree overhanging the 
> collecting basin at this corner.  It perched briefly, during which time we 
> got passable looks at the head and, in my case, wings and body.  It then 
> disappeared and, as is common with this species, was thenceforth unfindable.  
> A large, heavy-bodied warbler - oliveish above, yellowish below with it's 
> hood reduced to a smear ventrally.  My 'feeling' is that the throat was not 
> particularly pale.  There was no evidence of white crescents above or below 
> the eye - at best a very thin pale ring almost encircling the eye - not the 
> bold ring of a Connecticut Warbler, not the crescents or suggested crescents 
> of a MacGillivray's.
> 
> There are twenty previous records of the species in our region - with ten of 
> the records during second halves of Septembers and first halves of October 
> scattered from 1977 to 1985 and from 2000 to 2011.   The species was not 
> tracked between 1986 and 1999 for some reason.
> 
> Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock

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