Mary Lee
11-25-2011, 08:22 PM
Trip Leader Simone Jenion shared the following report:
There were 12 participants on this cool and windy day. Here are the birds we saw and heard:
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Greater White-fronted Goose
Canada Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
American Kestrel
Northern Harrier
American Coot
Sandhill Crane-(67 of them, on the ground, foraging in the dried up
part of Benbrook Lake at Mustang Park)
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker (HO)
Eastern Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Harris Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Meadowlark sp.
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
We missed many of the usual suspects, as they seemed to be "Gone with
the Wind"!!
A great big THANK YOU goes to co-leaders Ed Lane and Dale Roberts for their assistance. Dale spotted the Sandhill Cranes!
There were 12 participants on this cool and windy day. Here are the birds we saw and heard:
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Greater White-fronted Goose
Canada Goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
American Kestrel
Northern Harrier
American Coot
Sandhill Crane-(67 of them, on the ground, foraging in the dried up
part of Benbrook Lake at Mustang Park)
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker (HO)
Eastern Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Blue Jay
American Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Harris Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Meadowlark sp.
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
We missed many of the usual suspects, as they seemed to be "Gone with
the Wind"!!
A great big THANK YOU goes to co-leaders Ed Lane and Dale Roberts for their assistance. Dale spotted the Sandhill Cranes!