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Selected Bird Reports, December 2001
1--233 Lovera (Shirley Bartels): First American Goldfinch
1--Spacious Sky (Robin Nowak): fem. Rufous Hummingbird
1--Mitchell lake (Mike Creese): 3 Snow Goose (flyover), 1 Say's Phoebe, 11 Vermilion Flycatcher, 2 Cinnamon Teal, 8 Hooded Merganser, 400 Ruddy Duck, 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 2 Swamp Sparrow, 8 Song Sparrow, 2 Common Yellowthroat, 1 Couch's Kingbird
2--Avenue A (Creese): Blue-headed Vireo, Black-and-White Warbler
2--Hidden Valley Recreation Park (Helen Rejzek): 1 Green Kingfisher, 5 E. Bluebirds, Yellow-rumped Warblers (first of season)
2--Avenue A (Dodge Engleman): 1 Winter Wren
2--Green Forest St (Marge Hooks): first Rufous Hummingbird.
4--Rio Medina (Janice McClintock): Anna's Hummingbird (until Dec. 22) and imm. male Broad-tailed Hummingbird
5--Timberlake Lake (Creese): 1 Canvasback
5--OP Schnabel Park (Creese, Rejzek): 2 Spotted Towhee, 1 Field Sparrow
6--Thelma Dr (Lily Engles): 2 Great Horned Owls
6--Cagnon Rd (Creese, Rejzek): 2 Verdin, 3 Pyrrhuloxia, Grasshopper, Lincoln's, Savannah, White-crowned and Vesper Sparrows
7--Mitchell Lake (Georgina Schwartz):, 10 White-crowned Sparrow, 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
9--Ingram Rd and Hunt Ln (Randy Lutke): Ferruginous Hawk
10--Dauer Ranch Rd, Clear Springs (Creese); 28 Sandhill Cranes, Meadowlarks, Vesper Sparrows
14--Pfeil Road (Richard Sims): 3 Sprague's Pipits
14--Encino Park (Greg Lisciandro): +/- 24 Cedar Waxwings, (first of season)
16--Cagnon Rd (Rejzek): Burrowing Owl
16--Southwest H.S. (Jerry Fischer and Steve Hawkins): Solitary Sandpiper (rare for season)
16--Mitchell lake (David Pueppke): Couch's Kingbird, Sprague's Pipit, Say's Phoebe, Snipe, Cave Swallow, Grasshopper Sparrow
16--Fischer Rd at Bexar Met (Sue Wiedenfeld): 10,000 Red-winged Blackbirds, 2 Yellow-headed Blackbird, 1 Peregrine Falcon, 3 N. Harrier, 2 Cooper's, 1 Sharp-shinned, 3 Red-shouldered, 8 Red-tailed, 1 Rough-legged and 1 Ferruginous Hawk
16--Trawalter Lane (Wiedenfeld): 1 Zone-tailed Hawk
16--Avenue A (Creese): 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
18--Government Canyon SNA (Rejzek): 2 Black-throated Sparrow, 1 Verdin, 2 Common Raven
20--UTHSCSA (Leslie Linehan): 1 Rufous Hummingbird
20--Cornerstone School, Wal-mart, and Shenandoah (Jerry Hernandez): 3 Great-horned Owls
20--Old Wiederstein Rd (Susan Schaezler): Dark-eyed Junco, Cedar Waxwing
21--Village Oak Dr, Live Oak (Sims): 1 Peregrine Falcon
22--Avenue A (Creese): Winter Wren, Black-throated Green Warbler, Northern Flicker
24--Saur Rd, Bulverde (Pueppke): 1 female Scott's Oriole
24--Applegate St (Dorothy Brown): 2 Cooper's Hawk
28--Fredericksburg, TX: N. Elk at E. Morse (Jane Crone, Bill Lindeman): 1 Lewis' Woodpecker
28--1604 at I-37 south (Byron Stone): 200 Cave Swallow
29--Live Oak City Park (Mike Scully): 2 Crows, Merlin, Belted Kingfisher
29--Hunt Lane and Ingram Rd (Tom Richards): 1 Rough-legged Hawk
30--Mitchell Lake (Linda Blodgett): Hooded Mergansers, Bufflehead
31--Leon Valley, Raymond Rimkus Park (John Economidy): 1 adult Rufous-morph Red-tailed Hawk
31--Loop 1604 at Boysville (Sims): 4 American Crow
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