Hi,
My wife, Jackie, says there were several scissortails north of town, at the
barn where she rides a horse, on the airport road about a mile west of
University Ave. Also, hiding on the ground then flying, what would have to be,
from her close description, a poorwill.
Bill
On Monday, April 18, 2016 5:30 PM, Robert C. Lee
<robertclee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4-16-16. Two W. Kingbirds and 1 Scissor-tailed at rest stop above Post
today. David Marshall had a Scissor-tail at his Crosby County house on 4-13.
LOTS of Scissor-tails at Possum Kingdom today. Wildflowers species and numbers
at a recent years peak from Lubbock, Garza, Kent, Fisher, Jones, Shackelford,….
With some nice Bluebonnet patches on Hwy 70 in Kent Co.
4-8 Pine Siskins at our Lubbock feeder daily 4-5 through 4-16.
On Apr 15, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Anthony Hewetson <fattonybirds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greetings All:
As I was cleaning and refilling my hummingbird feeders on the morning of the
10th I noted 2 Curve-billed Thrashers in the largest of my pecan trees. This
species has become uncommon in the immediate vicinity of Lubbock and is very
rare to my neighborhood.
A Hermit Thrush (another plain, brown job) graced my yard on the 7th.
A Chipping Sparrow was in my yard on the 8th and 9th. On the 10th, it was
joined by a buddy. They are working over the bugs that nosh on the
reproductive bits that fall of my fruitless mulberry tree.
For most of the week I had 2 Lincoln's Sparrows - on the 9th and 10th there
were at least 4. Again, not a mind-boggling species for the region but it is
very unusual to have more than a single bird in my yard at a time.
Unusual misses at the point: I usually have a pair of Western Kingbirds
setting up a nest in my yard by the end of the first week of April; haven't
seen one in the entire region yet - I should have, given the amount of time
spent in the year, had at least a couple of Swainson's Hawk flyovers; so far
nada.
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson, Lubbock