Greetings All: I spent 3.25 hours at Lake Six and in the riparian area
immediately below Lake Six this morning.
The absolute best bird of the day: a stunning male Blackpoll Warbler in the
mesquite uplands above Lake Six. I took seventeen shots of the bird
through interlacing layers of mesquite and ended up with one barely
identifiable image - but that is more than I would have gotten with my old
camera.
Other highlights included: 1 Snowy Egret, 1 Spotted Sandpiper, 1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 1 Western Wood Pewee, and 5 Bronzed Cowbirds below
Lake Six; 1 Blue-winged Teal, 1 Snowy Egret, 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 2
Western Wood Pewees, 1 Willow Flycatcher, 1 Warbling Vireo, 1 Yellow
Warbler, 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, 2 MacGillivray's Warblers, 2 Wilson's
Warblers, 10 Chipping Sparrows, and 3 Clay-colored Sparrows around the
margins of Lake Six.
Not exactly stellar but at least I had 2 contopids, an empid, a vireo, and
a smallish handful of warblers to show for my efforts.
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock