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06 (64 species)CBC @ Warbler Woods

susan — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:03:28 +0000

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

06 Misc. birds @ Warbler Woods

susan — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:56:28 +0000

1-1-06 Misc. birds @ Warbler Woods
Some selected birds from today:
Pictures from today of Brown & Long-billed Thrasher:
http://www.warblerwoods.com/wp-gallery2.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=3623
Northern Bobwhite - >8
Great Blue Heron
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara - >3
American Kestrel
Merlin
Killdeer - >5
White-winged Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Blue-headed Vireo - >2
American Crow - >4
Carolina Chickadee
Black-crested Titmouse - singing
Carolina Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush - >>>>>
American Robin - >9
Northern Mockingbird - >9
Brown Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher
Orange-crowned Warbler - >8
Yellow-rumped Warbler - >9
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow >3
Field Sparrow >7
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow >2
Savannah Sparrow
Le Conte’s Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow >5
White-throated Sparrow >15
White-crowned Sparrow >13
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal >>>>
Eastern Meadowlark - >13
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
Cedar Waxwing
Happy New Year to all! The rest of my company left today–we had 11
dogs & 20 people–most noisy, but fun! Please remember to contact me
first to visit–we had one visitor that arrived w/o making arrangements
and they discovered the mob that we had here! The birds continue to
flock to the watering areas and I’m seeing more birds eating seed,
instead of other preferred things!
Susan
San Antonio/New Braunfels
www.warblerwoods.com

Site Update

schaez — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:32:50 +0000

I finally got around to doing some more updates to the site. Hopefully everything works ok. Feel free to comment to this post with comments or bugs.

Ryan

Test Post

schaez — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:08:41 +0000

This is a test post for the new WarblerWoods site.