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Selected Bird Reports, August 2001

Compiled this month by Georgina Schwartz. ALL bird reports go to the Bird Records Committee.

1--Mitchell Lake (Mike Creese): 1 MARBLED GODWIT, Roadrunner

2--Friedrich Park (Mike Creese): 1 GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER

2--Schaefer Road Rookery (Richard Sims): 600 Cattle Egret

2--Ware-Seguin Road (Richard Sims): 9 N. Rough-winged Swallow

2--Schaefer Road Rookery (Richard Sims): 1500 Cattle Egret, 1 Little Blue Heron

3--Quihi, Medina Co. (Barbara Lapp): Ruby-throated Hummingbird

3--Woodlawn Lake (Carole Beth Arnette): 2 Moorhen

3--Graytown Road (Richard Sims): 1 Couch's Kingbird

3--Belvoir Dr (Georgina Schwartz): 1 Rufous Hummingbird (first of season)

5--Avenue A (Georgina Schwartz): 1 Blue-headed Vireo (not usually seen in summer)

5--Mitchell Lake (Willie Sekula, Keith Bartels, Matt Heindel): 1 WOOD STORK, 1 Grooved-billed Ani, 100+ Stilt Sandpipers, 5 SANDERLING, lots of Least Sandpipers, 20-30 Western and 4-5 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper (SP), Wilson's Phalaropes, 15+ PAINTED BUNTINGS, Blue Grosbeak

5--Evans Lake (Helen Rejzek): 2 WOOD STORK, 7 Roseate Spoonbill, Little Blue and Great Blue Herons, 1 Spotted SP, Caracara, Black-necked Stilts, Cattle and Great Egrets

6--Mitchell Lake (Shirley Wilkerson): MARBLED GODWIT, numerous Avocet, Black-necked Stilts, Killdeer, Yellowlegs, Lesser Scaup, Little Blue Heron, Snowy Egret, Wilson's Phalarope

7--Pike Rd (Keith Bartels): Ruby-throated Hummingbird

7--Spacious Sky (Robin Nowak): Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Long-billed Thrasher, Barn Swallows

7--Woodlawn Lake (Carole Beth Arnette): 1 Green Heron

7--Universal City (Ron Cabral): Rufous Hummingbird, Orchard Oriole, Scrub-Jay

7--Spring Branch (Leslie Linehan): Ruby-throated Hummingbird

7--Oakwell Farms (Sylvia Hilbig): 1 Black-and-white Warbler

7--Old Wiederstein Rd (Susan Schaezler): First RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET (not usually seen in summer), Painted Buntings

8--Lost Forest St (Richard Sims): 1 Curve-billed Thrasher

8--Mitchell Lake (Sue Wiedenfeld): 2 Least Grebe, 6 Black-crowned Night-Heron, 45 Black-necked Stilt w/young, 25 Am. Avocet, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Spotted SP, 5 Semipalmated SP, 20 Western SP, 150 Least SP, 1 Pectoral SP, 20 Stilt SP, 10 Long-billed Dowitcher, 20 Wilson's Phalarope, 5 Common Ground-dove, 3 Groove-billed Ani, 20 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 2 Purple Martin

9--Mitchell Lake (Sumner Dana): 2 Barn Owl, 1 Great-horned Owl. 11--Mitchell Lake (Andy Garcia): 3 Yellow Warblers, 1 Groove-billed Ani, 2 Loggerhead Shrike, 6 Red-tailed Hawk, 3 Least Grebe, Green Heron, Pyrrhuloxia, 3 Gadwall, 6 Tricolored Heron, 2 Forster's Tern, Roadrunner

11--Evans Lake (Scott Gruwell): UPLAND SANDPIPER, Roseate Spoonbill, Bobwhite

11--Judson Nature Trails (Mike Creese): Black-and-white Warbler, 2 Lesser Goldfinch, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Loggerhead Shrike, 2 White-eyed Vireo

12--Avenue A (Mike Creese): Green Kingfisher, Red-shouldered Hawk

12--Old Wiederstein Rd (Susan Schaezler): 1 Black-throated Green Warbler

12--Mitchell Lake (Georgina Schwartz, Mike Hannisian): SWAINSON'S HAWK, 4 Red-tailed Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, 2 Least Grebe, 6 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, 100 Blue-winged Teal (first flock of the season), 60 Long-billed Dowitcher, 3 Groove-billed Ani, 8 Black-chinned Hummingbird, 1 Couch's Kingbird, 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee, 2 Yellow Warbler, 3 Painted Bunting, 6 Dickcissel, 4 Bullock's Oriole, Orchard Oriole, 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 1 unidentified yellow and black oriole (Audubon's?)

12--Evans Lake (Helen Rejzek): 3 Forster's Tern

13--Old Wiederstein Rd (Don Schaezler): 1 Eastern Kingbird

14--Talley Rd, NW Bexar Co. (Jerry Fischer): 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

14--Live Oak Lake (Richard Sims): 3 COMMON NIGHTHAWK, 3 Common Snipe

15--Mitchell Lake, afternoon (Mike Creese, Mike Hannisian, James Middleton): Lesser Nighthawk, Bank Swallow, Pyrrhuloxia, Blue Grosbeak, Orchard Oriole

16--West Creek (Helen Rejzek): 3 Black-and-white Warbler, Rufous Hummingbird

17--Oakwell Farms (Sylvia Hilbig): Yellow Warbler, 1 Tanager, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 3 Orchard Orioles, Dickcissel

18--Oakwell Farms (Sylvia Hilbig): Yellow Warbler, Orchard Orioles

18--Mitchell Lake (Sumner Dana): 19 Orchard Orioles in the banding net

18--McAllister Park (James Lavender): Blue Grosbeak

19--Mitchell Lake (Clint Heard): 2 Groove-billed Anis, 1 Harris's Hawk

19--Avenue A (Andy and Wendy Garcia): 2 Wood Duck, 1 Eastern Wood-Peewee, Western Kingbird, Titmouse, Eastern Phoebe, 1 HOODED WARBLER, 2 Black-and-white Warbler, 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 2 Downy Woodpecker, 6 Yellow Warbler, 8 Black-chinned Hummingbirds, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, plus the usual stuff

19--Calaveras Lake (Helen Rejzek): 30+ Pied-billed Grebe, Great Blue, Green Heron, Great & Snowy Egrets, 2 Gadwall, Ruddy Duck, Red-tailed Hawk, Caracara, Forster's Tern, 3 Common Ground-dove, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 2 Verdin, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 5 Yellow Warbler

20--Walker Ranch Park (Georgina Schwartz): Summer Tanager, 3 Indigo Bunting, Scrub-Jays, Great-crested Flycatcher

20--Old Wiederstein Rd (Susan Schaezler): Northern Waterthrush

21--Avenue A (Mike Creese, Helen Rejzek): 3 Downy Woodpecker, 1 Empidonax FC , 3 Great-crested Flycatcher, 2 Western Kingbird, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 6 Blue Jay, 8 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 16 Yellow warbler, 2 Black-and-white Warbler, 4 BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER, 4 Lesser Goldfinch

23--Applegate St (Dorothy Brown): Yellow-breasted Chat. She also notes that she saw a chat at her house on 23rd in 1995 and 1998.

24--Southwest High School (Mike Creese): 6 Eastern Bluebirds, Summer Tanager, Pyrrhuloxia, 2 Orchard Oriole

25-- Mitchell Lake (Sumner Dana): Acadian Flycatcher, Northern Waterthrush, 28 Orchard Orioles (all second-year females), Common Ground-dove

25--Canyon Park, Canyon Lake (Georgina Schwartz): 1 Am. Kestrel

26--SA Botanical Gardens (Richard Sims): 8 Inca Dove, 3 Mockingbird, 10 Cardinal, 12 White-winged Dove, 12 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, 9 Am Coot, 7 Wood Duck, 3 Mallard, 2 Blue Jay, Downy Woodpecker, Green Heron, Barn Swallow, Yellow-billed Cuckoo

26--Municipal Auditorium (Dorothy and Joe Brown): 1 Am. Kestrel

26--Avenue A (Georgina Schwartz): 1 Eastern Kingbird

26--Mitchell Lake (Marge Lumpe): 2 Least Grebe, 1000 Least SP, 1 Western SP, 5 Yellow Warbler, Common Ground-dove, Groove-billed Ani, Am. Avocet 10, 12 Northern Shoveler, 10 Long-billed Dowitcher, 3 Wilson's Phalarope, 1 Pyrrhuloxia, 50 Cliff & Cave Swallow

26--Brackenridge Park (Keith Bartels): 1 imm. White Ibis, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Wilson's & Yellow Warblers, Orchard Oriole, & Empidonax flycatchers

27--Avenue A (Mike Creese): Prothonotary Warbler

28--Mitchell Lake (Ron Cabral, Lee Clausen): Black Tern, 2 Least Grebe, 2 Groove-billed Ani, 2 Long-billed Thrasher, Osprey, Yellow Warbler, 2 Couch's Kingbird, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

28--Live Oak Lake (Richard Sims): 2 Little Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Am. Crow

31--Belvoir Dr (Georgina Schwartz): 1 Rufous Hummingbird present since 3rd, 2 Black-chinned Hummingbird

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