Greetings Bill:
What is Jackie's last name - I hate to assume anything these days:)
Thanks; Fat Tony
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:49 PM, WILLIAM WENTHE <wwenthe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:
the 10th I noted 2 Curve-billed Thrashers in the largest of my pecan
Greetings All:
As I was cleaning and refilling my hummingbird feeders on the morning of
trees. This species has become uncommon in the immediate vicinity of
Lubbock and is very rare to my neighborhood.
was joined by a buddy. They are working over the bugs that nosh on the
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
reproductive bits that fall of my fruitless mulberry tree.
there were at least 4. Again, not a mind-boggling species for the region
For most of the week I had 2 Lincoln's Sparrows - on the 9th and 10th
but it is very unusual to have more than a single bird in my yard at a time.
setting up a nest in my yard by the end of the first week of April; haven't
Unusual misses at the point: I usually have a pair of Western Kingbirds
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