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Selected Bird Reports, April 2005

FOS = First of Season
1—Blue Wing Rd (MC): 6 Swainson’s Hawk
1—Evans Lake (MC): 3 Am. Golden-Plover
1—Regency Lane (CH): 2 Clay-colored Sparrows
2—Friedrich Park (AGr): Nashville Warbler, Golden-cheeked Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2—Lost Maples (HR): Golden-cheeked, Black-and-white, Ash-throated & Nashville Warbler, Hummingbird, Red-eyed and Yellow-throated Vireo
3—Brackenridge Park (MC): Blue-headed & Yellow-throated Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Orange-crowned, Yellow-rumped & Chestnut-sided Warbler
3—Mitchell Lake (CM): 1 Long-tailed Duck, 3 Cinnamon Teal, 2 Lesser Scaup, 10 Ring-necked Duck
3—Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): FOS Summer Tanager
4—Rio Medina (JMc): 200 Snow Geese
5—Blue Wing Rd (HR): 1 Am. Golden-Plover, 3 Upland Sandpipers
5—Pleasanton Rd pond (HR): 9 White-faced Ibis
5—Evans Lake (HR): Great Horned Owl, 3 Snipe
5—Cagnon Rd (HR): Ash-throated Flycatcher, Verdin, Curve-billed Thrasher, 3 Bell’s Vireo, Cactus Wren, Green Kingfisher at River Crossing
6—Calaveras Lake (HR): 8 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 1 Bronzed Cowbird, Least Bittern, 2 Common Yellowthroat, 4 Marsh Wrens, 2 Pyrrhuloxia, Green Heron, Osprey
7—Eisenhower Park, Hilltop Trail (GL): Golden-cheeked Warbler
8—Mechlar Rd and Jungman Rd (BD): 3 Upland Sandpiper, 2 Sprague’s Pipits, 2 Horned Larks, Say’s Phoebe, 10 Grasshopper, 1 Clay-colored & Cassin’s Sparrow
9—Regency Place (CH): FOS Western Kingbirds
9—Mitchell Lake (DE): Say’s Phoebe, Cinnamon Teal, Grasshopper Sparrow, Bell’s Vireo
10—Medina River Park (AH): 2 Summer Tanager
10—Regency Place (CH): 10 Broad-winged Hawk, 4 Swainson’s Hawk, 50 Franklin Gull
10—Mechlar Rd and Jungman Rd (MG & KM): Horned Lark, Sprague’s Pipit, 2 Clay-colored & Savannah Sparrow, House Wren, Cedar Waxwings
10—Riverwalk (PW): 4 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
11—Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): FOS Whip-poor-will, Chuck-will’s-Widow, Common Pauraque
12—Rio Medina (JMc): FOS Painted Bunting
12—Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): Canada & Golden-cheeked Warbler
12—Comanche Lookout Park (DE): Ovenbird
12—Old Wiederstein Rd (MC): Lincoln’s, White-crowned & Lark Sparrow; Spotted Towhee, Cardinal, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Carolina Wren, 3 Nashville Warbler, White-eyed & 1 Blue-headed Vireo
14—Unknown Location (AGr): Mourning Warbler
14—Airport (KB): 5 Upland Sandpipers
15—Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): Painted Bunting, Indigo Bunting, 2 Common Pauraque
16—Mitchell Lake (DP): 3 Anhinga, 2 Little Blue Heron, 1 N. Harrier, Ash-throated Flycatcher, E. Kingbird, Bell’s Vireo, Orchard Oriole, 2 Blue-winged Teal, Grasshopper & Swamp Sparrow
17—Avenue A and Brackenridge Park (AG): 2 Barred Owls, 6 Am. Goldfinch, 1 Scarlet Tanager, 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler
17—Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): Hooded Warbler, 25 Nashville Warbler
17—Evans Lake (Helen Rejzek): 3 Pectoral, 20 Least & 1 Buff-breasted Sandpiper
18—Regency Ln (CH): FOS Common Nighthawk, 5 Swainson’s Hawk, 11 Mississippi Kite
19—Sandstone St at Huebner (SC): N. Parula, Nashville Warbler
19—Old Wiederstein Rd (EJ): 1 Great Kiskadee
19—Encino Park (GL): 75 Swainson’s Hawk, 2 Mississippi Kite
19—Larkstone St (B&MC): Painted Bunting
20—Calaveras Lake (HR): 1 Least Bittern, 12 Franklin’s Gull
20—Airport from Nakoma St. (GL): 6 Upland Sandpiper
20—Encino Park (GrL): 60 Franklin’s Gull
21—Medina River Park (CH): Dickcissels, 2 Indigo Bunting, 2 N. Parula, Nashville, Black-and-white, Black-throated Green Warblers; Summer Tanager, Great-crested Flycatcher, Red-eyed Vireo, Green Kingfisher
22—Perrin Creek (MG): 2 Downy Woodpeckers, Orchard Oriole, Great-crested Flycatcher; Black-and-white, Yellow, Black-throated Green & Nashville Warbler; House Wren
22—Uvalde Co (MH): 1 Short-tailed Hawk
23—Mitchell Lake (ER): 5 Green Heron; 19 Great Egret; 1 Crested Caracara; 1 Loggerhead Shrike; 9 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher; 4 Brown-headed Cowbird; 2 Common Moorhen; 15 Double-crested Cormorant; 61 Blue-winged Teal; 2 Turkey Vulture; 2 Pied-billed Grebe; 13 Snowy Egret; 1 Great Blue Heron; 3 Least Grebe; 1 Brown-crested Flycatcher; 12 Black-necked Stilt; 2 Spotted Sandpiper; 1 Long-billed Dowitcher; 13 Wilson’s Phalarope; 3 Lesser Yellowlegs; 2 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck; 1 Barn Owl; 4 Neotropic Cormorant; 1 Belted Kingfisher; 371+ White Pelican; 2 Forster’s Tern; 165 Ruddy Duck; 1 Osprey; 2 Cattle Egret; 8 N. Shoveler
25—Calaveras Lake (DE): Bald Eagle
26—Pearsall (MR): 1 imm. Goshawk
27—Pleasanton (MP): Ovenbird, Kentucky Warbler
28—Old Wiederstein Rd (GS): Am. Redstart, Black-throated Green, Nashville, Orange-crowned, Tennessee & Black-and-white Warbler, Bullock’s Oriole, Brown Thrasher, Gray Catbird, Rose-breasted Grosbeak
28—OP Schnabel Park (HR): Black-billed Cuckoo, 1 Blackburnian Warbler
29—Lazy J St, Helotes (DK): 2 Scott’s Oriole
30—Comanche Lookout Park (SG): 1 female Kentucky Warbler

OBSERVERS: AG=Andy Garcia; AGr=April Grunspan; AH=Alonmzo Huerta; AM=Allyson Marceau; BD=Bob Doe; B&MC=Bill & Marian Collins; BS=Bill Skinner; CH=Curt Harwerth; CM=Curt McCamy; DB=Dick Bartels; DE=Dodge Engleman; DK=Deborah Kline; DP=David Pueppke; EJ=Ernest Jasek; ER=Ernie Roney; GL=Greg Lisciandro; GS=Georgina Schwartz; HR=Helen Rejzek; J&KM=Jerry & Karen Moulder; JMC=Janice McClintock; KB=Keith Bartels; KM=Karen Moulder; KN=Kim Novak; LG=Larry Galvez; LL=Leslie Linehan; MC=Mike Creese; MG=Mariann Golden; MH=Mitch Heindel; MP=Mike Paul; MR=Martin Reid; PW=Pam Wilson; SB=Shirley Bartels; SC=Sheridan Coffey; SG=Scott Gruwell; SH=Steve Hawkins; SS=Susan Schaezler

All reports go to the Bird Records Committee, even if they don’t appear here. Thanks for your submissions! Send your reports to Ernie Roney at <birdreports@saaudubon.org> or 4315 Summer Sun Lane, San Antonio, TX 78217. Report your birds using the online form at <www.saaudubon.org/birdreportform.html>, call them to the club’s tape at 308-6788, or paper forms can be had at any SAAS meeting or by mail from the club address.

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