Northeast Abilene

• Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, 6
• Baltimore Oriole, 1
• Yellow Warbler, 1

Waste Water

After a 1 1/2 inch rain Monday, Waste Water had some water, enough to support several hundred Least Sandpipers and yellowlegs:

Best bird(s) of the day:

• Stilt Sandpipers, 6
• Pectoral Sandpiper, 1
• Greater Yellowlegs, 70++
• Lesser Yellowlegs, 80++
• Least Sandpipers, 175+
• Solitary Sandpiper, 1
• Long-billed Dowitcher, 1
• Black-necked Stilts, 3
• Upland Sandpiper, 1 (heard)
• White-faced Ibis, 21
• Yellow-headed Blackbird, 1
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 1
• Empidonax Flycatcher, 1

Others:

• Cattle Egret, 24
• Red-winged Blackbirds, 200+
• Brown-headed Cowbirds, 150+
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 6
• Killdeer, 7
• Loggerhead Shrike, 2
• Swainson’s Hawk, 3
• Red-tailed Hawk, 1