Spotted Sandpiper
It’s the end of the week but starting a brand new month. I’m going to show you a few highlights of the past week.
Yellow-headed Blackbird
On Tuesday Ann and I decided to take our friend Jodie Wolslager on a little birding trip. We headed to Eldorado first to tour the water waste ponds there. There are always a good selection of waterfowl there, and you never know when you might get surprised. Suzanne Johnson had e-mailed us that there were about the thirty-seven White-faced Ibises there the previous day. By the time we got there the count was down to nine. But nevertheless I obtained some photos.
White-faced Ibises
We also saw some Yellow-headed Blackbirds, both adult and juvenile. We saw Spotted Sandpipers and a few other sandpiper types that we were unable to identify for certain. Also in attendance were probably one thousand Wilson’s Phalaropes.
Leaving there we headed to Christoval and back to our favorite place the Hummer House.
Wilson's Phalaropes
A great collection of birds there, many more than than what we saw on a previous trip. Our first Painted Buntings of the season, Summer Tanagers, Pine Siskins, Vermilion Flycatcher. Lesser Goldfinches, plus many others.
This morning Ann and I were out at the San Angelo State Park to give a little presentation on birds for a group of Girl Scouts. I guess because of the cooler weather this morning, most of the birds stayed away. However, we were treated to a young male Wild Turkey that entered stage left, and left stage right. We did see a couple of Bullock’s Orioles though.
Upon leaving the park Ann and I spotted our firse Common Nighthawk of the season. He was perched as always, parallel on a branch. I got a few nice photos which I will post one here. After I took the photos, another birding
Common Nighthawk
friend of ours, Jimmy Villers, drove up with his wife. She had never seen a nighthawk before, so she got quite thrill out of it.
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Happy Birding!!
Texas Tweeties by Bob Zeller 