Best bird(s) of the day: Common Goldeneye: 1 Hooded Merganser: 2 Common Moorehen: 1 Sedge Wren: 1 Common Yellowthroat: 1 Complete List: Gadwall: 10 American Wigeon: 20 Blue-winged Teal: 1 Northern Shoveler: 1 Northern Pintail: 1 Green-winged Teal: 2 Bufflehead: 7 Common Goldeneye: 1 Hooded Merganser: 2 Pied-billed Grebe: 12 Eared Grebe: 25 American White […]

Complete List (113 species total) of Birds Seen on Christmas Bird Count: Black-bellied Whistling-Duck: 24 Canada Goose: 6 American Wigeon: 34 Gadwall: 70 Green-winged Teal: 29 Mallard: 129 Northern Pintail: 32 Northern Shoveler: 16 Canvasback: 1 Ring-necked Duck: 46 Lesser Scaup: 6 Bufflehead: 17 Common Goldeneye: 1 (cw) Hooded Merganser: 7 Wild Turkey: 80 Northern […]

Heidi Trudell and Cole Wild (new birder to Abilene) braved the very cold and very windy outskirts of Abilene in search of anything with feathers: Best bird(s): Wastewater Treatment Plant: Ross’s Goose: 1 Pectoral Sandpiper: 1 (very late date; Cole was able to photograph it) Say’s Phoebe: 2 (very late date) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher: 2 (very […]

Highlights: American White Pelican – 50+ Eared Grebe – 15 Horned Grebe – 2 Bufflehead – 2 Common Moorehen – 2 Spotted Sandpiper – 1 Greater Yellowlegs – 2 Lesser Yellowlegs – 1 Least Sandpiper – 3 Bonaparte’s Gull – 4 Sightings by Lorie Black

Best bird(s) of the morning: Red-shouldered Hawk: 1, DAFB Red-tailed Hawk: 5, DAFB. Best because all were distinctly differently plumaged birds. One was “normal,” one was the white morph, one was a completely dark morph, one had very big splotchy belly band, and the other had no belly band. Wilson’s Snipe: 1, DAFB Red-breasted Nuthatch: […]

Best bird(s) of the trip: Hooded Merganser: 2 Common Loon: 12, with one vocalizing Horned Grebe: 8 Sora: 1 Say’s Phoebe: 2 Brown Creeper: 1 Rock Wren: 1 Canyon Wren: 1 House Wren: 1 Marsh Wren: 4 Common Yellowthroat: 1 Complete List: American Wigeon: 16 Green-winged Teal: 8 Mallard: 30 Blue-winged Teal: 15 Canvasback: 5 […]

Best bird(s) of the morning: Red-breasted Nuthatch: 12, or more! It was hard to tell with as many as we saw all over the park. Brown Creeper: 1 near RV camping area 72-74. This area is closed for the winter to campers, but you may walk in and bird the area. Western Bluebird: 6, seen […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Cave Swallow: 1, it’s getting really late in the season to be seeing swallows Rock Wren: 1 in the same place previously found two years ago. Talk about site fidelity Brown Creeper: 1 Complete List: Mallard: 2 Wild Turkey: 13 Great Blue Heron: 2 Northern Harrier: 1 Red-tailed Hawk: 3, […]

Best bird(s) of the morning: Pomarine Jaeger continues harrassing the gulls and I watched it chase after an American White Pelican, but the pelican seemed indifferent to its advances. The cold and snow brought in a few more ducks. The List: American Wigeon: 4 Gadwall: 8 Mallard: 4 Northern Pintail: 4 Northern Shoveler: 12 Canvasback: […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Black Phoebe; first reported by Dan Symonds 11-17-2007 Complete List: Great Blue Heron: 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk: 2 Red-shouldered Hawk: 1 Red-tailed Hawk: 1, being chased by one of the Sharpies American Kestrel: 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove: 3 White-winged Dove: 26 Black Phoebe: 1 Great Kiskadee: 1 heard Blue Jay: 6 American […]