WarblerWoods - Birding Site

1-7-06 (64 species)CBC @ Warbler Woods
Beautiful day–we had a CBC-type count of our 126 acres with a total of
12 wonderful birders helping and we all had a wonderful time! We
started at 8 a.m. and stopped at noon for Harmon’s Barbecue, from
Cibolo, and then many of us went back out into the field. The last 4
visiting birders left at 5 p.m. and Don and I stayed out until 630 p.m.
At 8 a.m., it was 51.9 degrees and the humidity was 27% with winds of 1
mph. out of the WSW. At 10:30 a.m., we had a peak gust of 21 mph and
the wind shifted to the SW and the wind slowly subsided to 16-18 mph.
The High temperature was 77 at 3:35 p.m. and the low humidity was 11% at
2:07 p.m. We continue in drought conditions. The latest national
drought info is at: http://drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html. Our
neighbors have had 2 ponds dry up on 2 different sides & one of these
used to have water fowl. We found 2 recent fatalities in the woods–a
Red-shouldered Hawk and a Wild Turkey, in different areas. We didn’t
see the Red-tailed Hawks or the Bobwhite Quail today.
Wood Duck - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 1 flyover from northeast
Black Vulture - 2
Turkey Vulture - 6
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 battling with 2 crows
Crested Caracara - 4
American Kestrel - 1
Merlin - 1
Killdeer - 4
White-winged Dove - 16
Mourning Dove - 13
Inca Dove - 5
Common Ground-Dove - 4
Greater Roadrunner - 1
Eastern Screech-Owl - 1 in owl box in front yard
Great Horned Owl - 3, male and female calling along northeast fenceline,
1 at southeast corner
Common Pauraque - 2 northwest corner of first field after sunset
Ladder-backed Woodpecker - 3, male and female at Scheel’s pond plus one
other
Northern Flicker - 1, along east side of second field
Eastern Phoebe - 5
Loggerhead Shrike - 3
Blue-headed Vireo - 2
Western Scrub-Jay - 1
American Crow - 4
Common Raven - 2
Carolina Chickadee - 25
Black-crested Titmouse - 20
Carolina Wren - 6
Bewick’s Wren - 1
Sedge Wren - 1, second field
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 22
Hermit Thrush - 7
American Robin - 15
Northern Mockingbird - 20
Brown Thrasher - 4
Long-billed Thrasher - 2
European Starling - 2
Cedar Waxwing - 60
Orange-crowned Warbler - 12
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 20, including 1 Audubon’s
Pine Warbler - 2
Spotted Towhee - 3
Eastern Towhee - 1
Chipping Sparrow - 3
Field Sparrow - 12
Vesper Sparrow - 20
Lark Sparrow - 3
Savannah Sparrow - 10
Le Conte’s Sparrow - 2
Song Sparrow - 1
Lincoln’s Sparrow - 7
White-throated Sparrow - 20
White-crowned Sparrow - 11
Northern Cardinal - 50
Eastern Meadowlark - 40 Meadowlark sp.
Brewer’s Blackbird - 5, plus 1000 plus flyovers of unidentified
blackbirds, probably Brewer’s
Great-tailed Grackle - 15
Brown-headed Cowbird - 5
House Finch - 2
Lesser Goldfinch - 4
American Goldfinch - 18
House Sparrow - 30
Number of Species: 64
Susan Schaezler
San Antonio/New Braunfels
www.warblerwoods.com