[texbirds-freelists] [texbirds] Polly Wog Ponds and beyond...
- From: Dane Ferrell <daneferrell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:02:02 -0500
Plenty of Butterflies and Dragonflies today (04/23), but some way-cool
Birds as well(single Birds unless otherwise noted):
Broad-winged Hawks(5), Swainson's Hawks(2), Red-shouldered Hawks(2),
Harris's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, White-tailed Hawk, Baltimore Orioles(6),
Orchard Orioles(2), Indigo Buntings(2), Painted Bunting, Black-throated
Green Warblers(7 - all males), Nashville Warblers(6), Tennessee Warblers
(4), Black-and-White Warbler.
Surprise creature of the day was a very beautiful(and very hungry) Sphinx
Moth. Way-cool indeed...
Yesterday(04/22), while scouting for an early May TOS field trip that
Libby Even is leading at Lake Corpus Christi State Park, and the Knolle
Farms area, we had at the State Park: Audubon's Oriole, Painted Bunting,
Olive Sparrow, Fulvous Whistling Duck, Spotted Sandpiper.
Knolle Farms: a brief visit produced Red-tailed Hawk, Swainson's Hawk,
Vermilion Flycatcher, and Pyrrhuloxia.
Also yesterday, a few miles West of Orange Grove, on FM624; Libby and I
found 20 Swainson's Hawks(including 2 rufous morphs), 5 Crested Caracaras,
2 Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, and 2 Eastern Kingbirds - all in or near a
recently plowed field.
Dane Ferrell
Corpus Christi, TX
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