[leasbirds] Re: McAlister Park

From: Nancy Neill <nancy.m.neill@xxxxxxxxx>
To: leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:50:59 -0500

I'm new to ebird, but I'm thinking you got this off of there. Very cool!

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 3:42 PM Jennifer Miller <foundnatureblog@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi All,

Peter Keyel round a Ross’ Goose at McAlister today that is hanging out
with a couple of Cackling Geese. The birds are sparse today, but there is
lots of variety. Besides the birds another highlight was a swarm of bees
that must be looking for a new home :) Full list and pics below.

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McAlister Park, Lubbock
Apr 27, 2020
11:51 AM
Traveling
3.23 miles
186 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: Black/pipevine swallowtail. Mostly sunny changing to mostly
overcast. Breezy. Mid 70’s to mid 80’s.
Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 2.0.12 Build 2.0.121

1 Ross's Goose -- Found by Peter Keyel. Sleeping most of the time. Smaller
than the Cackling Geese it was with. Clean white head, small pink bull with
a bluish base. Pink legs. No grin patch.
3 Cackling Goose
3 Blue-winged Teal
3 Northern Shoveler -- 2 males, 1 female
1 American Wigeon -- Female
7 Mallard
2 Ruddy Duck
20 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
9 Mourning Dove
1 American Coot
26 Black-necked Stilt
11 American Avocet
2 Semipalmated Plover
15 Killdeer -- 2 fledglings getting a little older, 3 recently fledged.
Both set fledglings that I have been seeing recently.
4 Least Sandpiper
10 Long-billed Dowitcher
4 Wilson's Phalarope
1 Spotted Sandpiper -- Breeding plumage. Possibly 2.
4 Lesser Yellowlegs
7 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Great Blue Heron
2 Snowy Egret -- Breeding plumage
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron -- Adults
1 Osprey
3 Burrowing Owl
3 Western Kingbird
1 Loggerhead Shrike
1 Barn Swallow
30 Cliff Swallow -- Gathering mud
3 European Starling
6 American Pipit -- Breeding plumage
3 Clay-colored Sparrow
2 Lark Sparrow
1 Savannah Sparrow
1 sparrow sp.
3 Western Meadowlark
1 Western/Eastern Meadowlark -- Silent. No yellow on the face or malar,
only on the throat. Maybe the faintest yellow right at the bill on the
supercillium. Watched drinking before it flew. Eastern or lightly colored
western?
2 Red-winged Blackbird
6 Great-tailed Grackle

Number of Taxa: 39

Jennifer Miller
Lubbock, TX

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