Greetings All:
I spent an hour at Clapp Park this morning. The waters are high, the
mosquitoes are merciless, and the birding is - as would be expected in June
- a bit slow. The best part of the visit was the bursting into song of a
Bell's Vireo AND a Brown Thrasher just as a brief rain shower kicked in.
Alll in all I saw:
2 American Bullfrogs
1 Red-eared Slider
4 Mallards
2 Snowy Egrets
3 Green Herons
2 Yellow-crowned Night Herons
18 Mississippi Kites
25 Eurasian Collared Doves
4 White-winged Doves
4 Mourning Doves
1 Common Nighthawk
2 Chimney Swifts
1 Black-chinned Hummingbird
15 Western Kingbirds
1 Bell's Vireo (singing from dense shrubs at shrubhenge)
4 Blue Jays
1 Barn Swallow
23 American Robins
1 Brown Thrasher (singing from dense shrubs at shrubhenge)
5 Northern Mockingbirds
8 European Starlings
1 Northern Cardinal
6 Red-winged Blackbirds
25 Great-tailed Grackles
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
2 House Finches
6 House Sparrows
3 Eastern Gray Squirrels
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
By the by, the Brown-headed Cowbird was new for my Clapp Park list this
year, bringing the site up to 140 species of bird for 2015!