Best bird(s) of the day:
- High number of Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, and Western Kingbirds. The fledglings are sitting around in trees and utility wires waiting to be fed by parents.
- Grasshopper Sparrow, juvenile
Complete List:
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck, 2
- Mallard, 4
- Wild Turkey, 2
- Northern Bobwhite, 6
- Great Blue Heron, 1
- Green Heron, 2
- Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, 1 (juv)
- Turkey Vulture, 5
- Mississippi Kite, 5
- Swainson’s Hawk, 2
- Killdeer, 3
- Rock Pigeon, 3
- Eurasian Collared-Dove, 1
- Mourning Dove, 92
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 3
- Greater Roadrunner, 4
- Common Nighthawk, 2
- Chimney Swift, 1
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 3
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 8
- Eastern Phoebe, 1
- Ash-throated Flycatcher, 6
- Western Kingbird, 82
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 99
- Bell’s Vireo, 1
- Blue Jay, 4
- American Crow, 2
- Barn Swallow, 10
- Black-crested Titmouse, 7
- Bewick’s Wren, 11
- Eastern Bluebird, 24
- Northern Mockingbird, 60
- Curve-billed Thrasher, 2
- European Starling, 84
- Canyon Towhee, 1
- Cassin’s Sparrow, 1
- Lark Sparrow, 7
- Grasshopper Sparrow, 1 (juvenile)
- Northern Cardinal, 4
- Painted Bunting, 6
- Dickcissel, 15
- Red-winged Blackbird, 4
- Eastern Meadowlark, 3
- Common Grackle, 2
- Great-tailed Grackle, 75
- Brown-headed Cowbird, 8
- Bullock’s Oriole, 10
- House Finch, 27
- House Sparrow, 40
Sightings by LgPacker at the GC, down cantonment road, around WSA, and around the hospital/picnic grounds.