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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!

Mary Lee
11-26-2011, 11:01 PM
And I'd like to Thank Simone for leading the group on another great Benbrook field trip!