Northeast Abilene Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, 6 Baltimore Oriole, 1 Yellow Warbler, 1 Waste Water After a 1 1/2 inch rain Monday, Waste Water had some water, enough to support several hundred Least Sandpipers and yellowlegs: Best bird(s) of the day: Stilt Sandpipers, 6 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 70++ Lesser Yellowlegs, 80++ Least Sandpipers, 175+ Solitary […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Nashville Warblers, 2 Wilson’s Warblers, 6 Yellow Warblers, 7 Yellow-breasted Chat, 1 Orchard Orioles, 5 Bank Swallow, 1 Painted Buntings, 4 Least Flycatchers, 3 Empidonax Flycatcher, 2 Spotted Sandpiper, 2 Sharp-shinned Hawks, 2 (fos) Others: Cliff Swallows, 90+ Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, 51 Oriole Species (heard) 4 Dickcissel, 5 (heard) Wild Turkey, […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Sanderling, 1 Orchard Oriole, 1 Spotted Sandpiper, 2 Yellow Warbler, 2 Least Sandpiper, 2 Black Tern, 62 Forster’s Tern 4 Long-billed Dowitcher, 5 Black-necked Stilt, 1 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Others: Wild Turkey, 6 Common Nighthawk, 2 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 8 Barn Swallows, 42 Bank Swallow, 2 Cliff Swallow, 1 Ruby-throat Hummingbird, […]

Oakwood Trails: Best bird(s) of the day: Nashville Warbler, 2 Baltimore Oriole, 1 Others: Wild Turkey, 18 Belted Kingfisher, 1 Carolina Wren, 3 Bewick’s Wren, 2 Northern Cardinal, 6 Hummingbird sp. 3 American Robin, 1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 1 Black-crested Titmouse, 2 Carolina Chickadee, 1 Blue-Jay, 2 Eastern Bluebird, 2 Lake Kirby: Best bird(s) of the […]

Best bird(s) of the day: Yellow-breasted Chat, 1 Yellow Warbler, 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 1 Bullock’s Oriole,4 Orchard Oriole, 6 Verdin, 1: first time recorded on base Others: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 33 Western Kingbird,1 Common Nighthawk, 2 Barn Swallow,8 Cliff Swallow, 28 Cave Swallow, 9 Barn Owl, 1 Carolina Wren, 1 Curve-billed Thrasher, 4 Pyrrhuloxia, 2 Lark […]

Lake Kirby and Abilene’s waste water ponds attracted rare shorebirds this past week. To read about these sightings and to see a few blurry but diagnostic pictures, read on.

Red-naped Sapsucker reported January 2, 2006 in west Abilene. Picture taken by Andrew Lawry. This is a first record as far as I know for Abilene/Taylor County.

January 7, 2006 Highlights were: Harris Sparrow Brown Creeper Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher Fox Sparrow

A sub-adult male Rufous Hummingbird showed up in Abilene September 15, 2005 in a NE Abilene neighborhood. He stayed for over three months and was last seen January 7, 2006. Two pictures below show his molt progression. First picture taken September 15 by Laura Packer, second photo taken December 14 by John English.

Jan 2, 2006: Four members went birding Monday, January 2, in Jones County. Highlights of our trip included a Burrowing Owl, Lark Buntings, and Brewer’s Blackbirds. At Lake Hamlin we saw Sora, Marsh Wren, Swamp Sparrow, Song Sparrow, and Common Yellowthroat. A Golden-crowned Kinglet was discovered at Johnson Park around Lake Fort Phantom. If you’d […]