Hi everyone, Toni arrived at the fishing pier at Lake 6 at 5:45pm and hung
out around the pickup truck parked on the side of the road until 6:26 when
it started raining good. We saw the following birds from that singular
vantage point:
Highlight was a Semi-Palmated Plover who flew in and sat on the corner of
the rail of the fishing pier.
Then a pedestrian stirred up a Green Heron tucked into the weeds along the
north shore.
A Snowy Egret was unusually still down the way.
We saw 8 Canada Geese across MLK on the way to the pier.
On the other side of the road:
1 Scissor Tail
9 Western Kingbirds
20 House Finch stirred up by a cross country runner east of the prairie dog
town
3 American Crow
7 Starling
Back to the lake side:
20 or so Great Tailed Grackles
2 Coots
6 Mallards
28 Red-winged Blackbirds
17 Barn Swallows
It started raining and it was well after the 6pm meeting time, so we
stopped there and went to Taco Tuesday at Rosa's. It hailed on the way
there, during which we took cover in a car wash near the corner of MLK and
50th.
Tom & Toni Dolan
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Dolan, Tom <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi everyone,
Since it's cleared up a little, I plan to go meet with anyone who wants to
venture out for our 6pm field trip this evening - i.e. our field trip is
not cancelled.
On the other hand, I assume our meeting place at MacKenzie Park is flooded
- let's meet at the pullout by the pier on the north side of Lake 6 (Dunbar
Historical Lake) and decide what to do from there. Please bring along
rubber boots in case we decide to walk into some partially flooded wooded
areas.
The pier is located on the north branch of Canyon Lake Drive which goes
all the way around Lake 6 - the pier is about a third of the way down when
you're going from M.L. King Jr. Blvd. toward the Lake 6 dam.
Tom Dolan