Highlights: Neotropic Cormorant Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Northern Flicker Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, numbers are dwindling fast Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Song Sparrow, FOS A good mix of wintering sparrows (see complete list below) Complete List: Wild Turkey – 26 Neotropic Cormorant – 3 Great Blue Heron – 1 Turkey Vulture – 1 Northern Harrier – 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 1 […]

Lake Kirby Highlights: Common Loon Duck species Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Wilson’s Snipe Complete List: Gadwall – 2 Blue-winged Teal – 4 Northern Shoveler – 5 Redhead – 4 Ring-necked Duck – 4 Ruddy Duck – 2 Common Loon – 1 Pied-billed Grebe – 5 Horned Grebe – 1 Eared Grebe – 20 American White […]

Complete List: Northern Bobwhite – 1 Great Blue Heron – 1 Red-shouldered Hawk – 1 Swainson’s Hawk – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 3 American Kestrel – 2 Killdeer – 3 Rock Pigeon – 54 Eurasian Collared-Dove – 1 Mourning Dove – 15 Golden-fronted Woodpecker – 3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker – 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 21 Blue […]

Highlights: Bushtits And the returning winter species, see list. Semi-complete List (complete for species seen, but not complete quantities) Double-crested Cormorant – 20 Great Blue Heron – 1 Black Vulture – 2 Turkey Vulture – 2 Red-tailed Hawk – 3 (one was a very dark morph) Eurasian Collared-Dove – 2 White-winged Dove – 2 Mourning […]

Highlights: The ducks are here! See complete list below. Olive-sided Flycatcher White-eyed Vireo Eastern Wood-Peewee Complete List: Wood Duck – 3 Gadwall – 10 American Wigeon – 10 Blue-winged Teal – 15 Northern Shoveler – 10 Northern Pintail – 2 Redhead – 10 Ruddy Duck – 2 Pied-billed Grebe – 5 Double-crested Cormorant – 15 […]

Highlights: American White Pelican – 250. They have really taken over! American Avocet – 9 Complete List: Mallard (Domestic type) – 4 Blue-winged Teal – 4 Northern Shoveler – 10 Pied-billed Grebe – 3 American White Pelican – 250 Double-crested Cormorant – 6 Great Blue Heron – 17 Great Egret – 27 Snowy Egret – […]

Highlight: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Complete List: Great Blue Heron – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 1 Red-Shouldered Hawk – 1 American Kestrel – 1 on FM89 Swainson’s Hawk – 1 on FM89 Black Vulture – 3 Turkey Vulture – 15 Belted Kingfisher – 1 Eastern Phoebe – 2 Blue Jay – 5 Black-crested Titmouse – 10 Carolina […]

Here are some recent highlights and first of the season (FOS) sightings for Dyess AFB: October 9, 2008: Spotted Towhee: 2, FOS, returning winter resident Vesper Sparrow: 1, FOS, returning winter resident October 8, 2008: Swainson’s Hawk: 1, 2008 hatch-year bird still present at the golf course Downy Woodpecker: 1, winter resident Carolina Chickadee: 1, […]