Highlights at Lake Fort Phantom Hill: Am White Pelican – 6 Eared Grebe – 12 Horned Grebe – 1 Pied-billed Grebe – 5 Snowy Egret – 1 Least Sandpiper – 20 Greater Yellowlegs – 2 Bonaparte’s Gull – 20 Ring-billed Gull – 200+ Redhead – 6 Am Coot – 100+ Am Pipit – 4 Highlights […]

Lake Kirby: Gadwall: 24 Green-winged Teal: 5 Mallard: 10 Northern Pintail: 4 Northern Shoveler: 1 Lesser Scaup: 9 Bufflehead: 5 Pied-billed Grebe: 2 Eared Grebe: 37 American White Pelican: 3 Double-crested Cormorant: 1 (yes, one; only one) Great Blue Heron: 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron: 1 Red-tailed Hawk: 1 American Coot: 57 Killdeer: 2 Wilson’s Snipe: 4 […]

Abilene State Park Best bird(s) Wood Ducks between the pool and the picnic area Complete List: Wood Duck: 4 Wild Turkey: 1 Great Blue Heron: 1 Black Vulture: 18 Red-shouldered Hawk: 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove: 2 Mourning Dove: 10 Ladder-backed Woodpecker: 2 Downy Woodpecker: 1 Northern Flicker: 1 Blue Jay: 10 Chihuahuan Raven: 2 Carolina Chickadee: […]

Snow Goose: 1 Mallard: 10 Blue-winged Teal: 10 Cinnamon Teal: 2 Northern Shoveler: 175 Northern Pintail: 100 Green-winged Teal: 30 Bufflehead: 1 Ruddy Duck: 2 Northern Harrier: 2 Red-tailed Hawk: 1 American Kestrel: 1 Sora: 1 American Coot: 100 Killdeer: 3 Greater Yellowlegs: 1 Lesser Yellowlegs: 2 Least Sandpiper: 12 Pectoral Sandpiper: 1 Short-billed Dowitcher: […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Common Goldeneye Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Eared Grebe Sandhill Crane Bonaparte’s Gull Horned Lark Bushtit Complete List: American Wigeon: 6 Gadwall: 8 Mallard: 6 Northern Shoveler: 6 Ring-necked Duck: 6 Lesser Scaup: 5 Common Goldeneye: 4 Bufflehead: 6 Hooded Merganser: 3 Pied-billed Grebe: 2 Eared Grebe: 12 American White Pelican: 100 […]

Will Hair Great Kiskadee – 1 SeaBee Park Great Egret – 2 White-faced Ibis – 17 Redhead – 75 Ring-necked Duck – 19 Lesser Scaup – 4 Lake Ft Phantom Hill Greater Yellowlegs – 2 Least Sandpiper – 12 Forster’s Tern – 1 Kirby Lake Am White Pelican – 25 Eared Grebe – 25 Hooded […]

Wild Turkey: 15 Great Blue Heron: 1 Red-tailed Hawk: 1 Merlin: 1 Ring-billed Gull: 5 Rock Pigeon: 5 Mourning Dove: 6 Golden-fronted Woodpecker: 4 Ladder-backed Woodpecker: 3 Blue Jay: 4 American Crow: 2 Black-crested Titmouse: 1 Eastern Bluebird: 5 Northern Mockingbird: 10 European Starling: 25 Yellow-rumped Warbler: 1 Canyon Towhee: 2 White-crowned Sparrow: 5 Northern […]

Here are some area highlights: Wastewater, January 8: Cinnamon Teal: 3 Pectoral Sandpiper: 1 Dunlin: 1 Sightings by Heidi Trudell and Laura Packer Dyess AFB, January 9 Eastern Towhee: 1 Sightings by Laura Packer Willhair Park, January 10 Great Kiskadee: heard around 9:20ish as it called approximately eight times. It kept calling “dee, dee” but […]

The scheduled field trip to Lake Hamlin quickly turned into a chase for the Golden-crown Sparrow near Robert Lee since several members needed it for their life list. Two members added the sparrow to their life list, making for a successful chase. We then went back to Buffalo Gap, looking for but not finding the […]

Highlights of New Year’s Day birding: Buffalo Gap: Red Crossbills Abilene State Park: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-breasted Nuthatch Mountain Bluebird (at entrance to Lake Abilene) Sightings by Lorie Black and Joan Howard Dan Symond’s New Year’s Day Sightings: First bird of the New Year: Great Horned Owl – 1 Flew across 277 south of […]