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Selected Bird Reports, April 2004

1--Live Oak City Park (DE): Barn Owl

1--Comanche Lookout Park (DE): +/- 60 Cedar Waxwing

3--Mechlar Rd (BD): 1 female Smith's Longspur

3--Mitchell Lake (A&WG)(JS): 11 Least Grebe; 6 Pied-billed Grebe; 20 White Pelican; 40 Double-crested Cormorant; 5 Great Blue Heron; 10 Great Egret; Little Blue Heron; 3 Snowy Egret; Cattle Egret; 4 Green Heron; 2 Black-bellied Whistling Duck; 8 Mute Swan; 30 Gadwall; 20 Green-winged Teal; 100 Blue-winged Teal; 200 Northern Shoveler; 6 Ruddy Duck; 100 Broad-winged Hawk (kettle flying over); Swainson's Hawk; 4 Red-tailed Hawk; 5 Crested Caracara; Sora; 30 Black-necked Stilt; 10 Long-billed Dowitcher; Greater Yellowlegs; 15 Lesser Yellowlegs; 3 Spotted Sandpiper; 3 Western Sandpiper; 300+ Least Sandpiper; 6 Pectoral Sandpiper; 2 Black-chinned Hummingbird; 40 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher; 3 Purple Martin; 20 Barn Swallow; 15 Ruby-crowned Kinglet; 10 Bewick's Wren; Long-billed Thrasher; 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher; 3 Black-crested Titmouse; 4 White-eyed Vireo; 2 Orange-crowned Warbler; Audubon's form Yellow-rumped Warbler; 2 Black-throated Green Warbler; 3 Vesper Sparrow; 3 Savannah Sparrow; 3 Lincoln's Sparrow; White-crowned Sparrow; 2 Amer. Goldfinch

3--Government Canyon SNA (GS): 2 Ash-throated Flycatcher; Black-chinned Hummingbird; Eastern Phoebe (nest building); 2 Black-bellied Whistling Duck; 4 Common Ground Dove; Greater Roadrunner; 2 Ladder-backed Woodpecker; 2 Purple Martin; 1 Spotted Towhee; 8 Lark Sparrow; Western Scrub Jay; Black-crested Titmouse

3--Highlands Ranch Subdivision (LG): 4 Black-bellied Whistling Duck; 16 Blue-winged Teal; 2 Northern Harrier; 1 Greater Yellowlegs; 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird; 3 Western Scrub Jay; 1 Barn Swallow; 5 Carolina Chickadee; 5 Black-crested Titmouse; 1 Carolina Wren; 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet; 1 Orange-crowned Warbler; 20 Chipping Sparrow; 1 Scott's Oriole

3--Evans Lake (CM): 1 Swallow-tailed Kite

3--Walker Ranch Park (BW): Pied-billed Grebe; Double-crested Cormorant; Great Egret; Black-bellied Whistling Duck; Gadwall; Blue-winged Teal; Ruddy Duck; Cooper's Hawk; Red-shouldered Hawk; Black-chinned Hummingbird; 2 Belted Kingfisher; Eastern Phoebe; Loggerhead Shrike; White-eyed Vireo; Blue-headed Vireo; Barn Swallow; Cave Swallow; Orange-crowned Warbler; Nashville Warbler; Lesser Goldfinch

3--Friedrich Park (LE): 1 Black-capped Vireo

4--Mitchell Lake (MG): 8 Least Grebe; 4 Pied-billed Grebe; 30 White Pelican; 20 Double-crested Cormorant; 1 Great Egret; 4 Snowy Egret; 2 Little Blue Heron; 6 Cattle Egret; 1 Green Heron; 1 Black-bellied Whistling Duck; 20 Gadwall; 80 Blue-winged Teal; 200 Northern Shoveler; 20 Green-winged Teal; 6 Ruddy Duck; 1 Red-tailed Hawk; 2 Crested Caracara; 1 Sora; 1 Greater Yellowlegs; 4 Lesser Yellowlegs; 1 Spotted Sandpiper; 400 Least Sandpiper; 2 Baird's Sandpiper; 2 Pectoral Sandpiper; 25 Long-billed Dowitcher; 3 Loggerhead Shrike; 2 White-eyed Vireo; 100 Cliff Swallow; 12 Barn Swallow; 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher; 20 Savannah Sparrow; 3 Lincoln's Sparrow; 6 White-crowned Sparrow

6--Jungman Rd (DE): 1 Swainson's Hawk; 1 Grasshopper Sparrow; 1 LeConte's Sparrow

6--Mechlar Rd (DE): female Chestnut-collared Longspur; several Horned Larks; Sprague's Pipit; 1 Grasshopper Sparrow

8--Braunig Lake (DE): 1 Amer. Pipit; 3 Osprey

9--Friedrich Park (BB): 5 Golden-cheeked Warbler; Lesser Goldfinch; 5 White-eyed Vireo; 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird; 1 Northern Bobwhite; 1 Hermit Thrush; 5 Orange-crowned Warbler

12--Friedrich Park (MC)(HR): 5 Golden-cheeked Warbler; 1 Black & White Warbler

16--Friedrich Park (PK): Golden-cheeked Warblers; possible 2 or more Black-capped Vireo (brief glimpse and some calls)

18--Mitchell Lake (WST): 2 Least Grebe; 5 Pied-billed Grebe; 50 White Pelican; 5 Double-crested Cormorant; 5 Great Egret; 15 Green Heron; 15 Snowy Egret; 1 Black-crowned Night-heron; 5 Black-bellied Whistling Duck; 50 Blue-winged Teal; 15 Northern Shoveler; 2 Green-winged Teal; 1 Red-shouldered Hawk; 2 Crested Caracara; 1 Northern Bobwhite; 15 Black-necked Stilt; 1 Lesser Yellowlegs; 1 Spotted Sandpiper; 25 Least Sandpiper; 10 Long-billed Dowitcher; 10 Chimney Swift; 2 Black-chinned hummingbird; 1 Western Kingbird; 30 Scissor-tailed flycatcher; 3 loggerhead Shrike; 50 Barn Swallow; 100 Cave Swallow; 1 House Wren; 2 LeConte's Sparrow; 1 White-crowned Sparrow; 3 Indigo Bunting; 1 Orchard Oriole; 2 Bullock's Oriole

24--Mitchell Lake (ER): 1 Curve-billed Thrasher; 6 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher; 8 Green Heron; 1 Barn Swallow; 7 White-crowned Sparrow; 1 Pied-billed Grebe; 1 Great Blue Heron; 1 Yellow-crowned Night-heron; 2 Least Grebe; 1 Little Blue Heron; 13 Snowy Egret; 2 Eastern Phoebe; 1 Red-tailed Hawk; 1 Pyrrhuloxia; 1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker; 7 Cattle Egret; 9 Blue-winged Teal; 4 Amer. Avocet; 1 Orchard Oriole; 4 Black-necked Stilt; 1 Vermilion Flycatcher; 1 Great Egret; 4 Double-crested Cormorant; 9 White Pelican; 1 Loggerhead Shrike; 1 Spotted Sandpiper; 1 Black-crowned Night-heron; 2 Turkey Vulture

29--One mile south 1604/181 (DW): 1 possible Swallow-tailed Kite

30--Friesenhan Park (GL): 1 male Black-headed Grosbeak

OBSERVERS: A&WG=Andy & Wendy Garcia; BB=Brandon Best; BD=Bob Doe; BW=Beth Wilkes; CM=Curt McCamy; DE=Dodge Engleman; DW=Dale Wiedenfeld; ER=Ernie Roney; GL=Greg Lisciandro; GS=Georgina Schwartz; HR=Helen Rejzek; JS=Jack Scheuerer; LE=Lorna Engleman; LG=Lee Grant; MC=Mike Creese; MG=Mariann Golden; PK=Phillip Kite; WS=Willie Sekula; WST=Warren Stricker

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