Highlights from the past few days: Black-bellied Whistling Duck, 1, 5-26, DAFB, LP Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, 4: 2 adults, 2 juveniles, DAFB, 5-25, LP American Avocets, 4, Lake Kirby 5-27, LB Franklin’s Gull, 1, Lake Kirby 5-27, LB Least Flycatcher, 1, 5-25 and 1, 5-26, DAFB, LP Swainson’s Thrush, 1, NE Abilene, LP Yellow Warbler, 1, […]

Best Bird(s) of the day: Cattle Egret, 1 perched in a Poplar at Totten Pond Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, 2: 1 adult, 1 juvenile Swainson’s Hawk chicks have hatched: telltale white down all around nest and foliage. Don’t know how many are in nest yet, Mom is very protective. Lark Sparrow fledgling, got a picture which I […]

Best Bird(s) of the day: Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, 3: 2 adults, 1 juv. Yellow Warbler, 5 Complete List: Wild Turkey, 4 Northern Bobwhite, 4 Green Heron, 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, 3 Mississippi Kite, 4 Swainson’s Hawk, 1 Killdeer, 3 Mourning Dove, 24 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 1 Greater Roadrunner, 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 1 Ash-throated Flycatcher, 2 Western Kingbird, 14 […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Spotted Sandpiper, 9 (high number, usually seen singly) Purple Martin, 2 checking out the PUMA house on the GC Yellow Warbler, 1 Complete List: Mallard, 2 Blue-winged Teal, 1 Wild Turkey, 8 Northern Bobwhite, 3 Great Blue Heron, 1 Green Heron, 2 Turkey Vulture, 2 Mississippi Kite, 9 American Coot, […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Least Flycatcher, 2 Yellow Warbler, 7 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 1 (FOS, first time documented on DAFB) Other highlights: (not a complete list; morning was extremely foggy, winds from the NNW) Wild Turkey, 4 Green Heron, 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Mississippi Kite, 9 Least Flycatcher, 2 Bell’s Vireo, 1 Eastern Bluebird, 1 Cedar […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Black-crowned Night-Heron, 1 Blue-headed Vireo, 1 Yellow Warbler, 4 Wilson’s Warbler, 2 Baltimore Oriole, 1 Orchard Oriole, 2 @ Wilhair Park, Abilene, TX American Goldfinch, 1 (late in the season) Complete List: Blue-winged Teal, 2 Wild Turkey, 1 Northern Bobwhite, 2 Green Heron, 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron, 1 Turkey Vulture, 2 […]

Here are a few highlights of birds seen from various places: White-faced Ibis (6) – Kirby Lake Franklin’s Gull – 4 – Lk Fort Phantom Hill Common Moorhen – 1 – Kirby Lake Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 – SeaBee Park (my FOS) Blue Grosbeak (1 f) W Lake Rd Grasshopper Sparrow (3) – SeaBee Park Summer […]

Best Bird(s) of the Day: Eastern Kingbird, 1 FOS and first time to document on base Nashville Warbler, 1 Clay-colored Sparrow, high numbers Complete List: Northern Bobwhite: 2 Green Heron, 2 Turkey Vulture, 2 Mississippi Kite, 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk, 2 Killdeer, 4 Spotted Sandpiper, 1 Mourning Dove, 23 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 3 Ladder-backed […]

Best Bird(s) of the day: Northern Harrier 1, (late in the season?) Least Flycatcher, 1 House Wren, 2 (also fairly late in the season) Nashville Warbler, 3 Yellow-breasted Chat, 1 Complete List: Northern Bobwhite, 2 Great Blue Heron, 2 Northern Harrier, 1 Swainson’s Hawk, 2 Greater Roadrunner, 1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 1 Least […]

Best Bird(s) of the day: Black-bellied Whistling Duck, 2 Least Flycatcher, 1 (FOS) Chihuahuan Raven nestlings just a few days old, 3 Yellow Warbler, 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, 1 Black and White Warbler, 1 Complete List: Black-bellied Whistling Duck, 2 on GC Mallard, 2 Northern Shoveler, 1 Wild Turkey, 6 on Green 10 Great Blue Heron, […]