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Selected Bird Reports, December 2004

1—Walker Ranch Park (MC): Great Horned Owl
2—Mitchell Lake (MS): 2 Long-tailed Duck; Ruddy Duck w/aberrant plumage
3—Loop 1604 & Hwy 281 (LAS): 3 Monk Parakeet
4—Jungman Rd (HR): 27 Mountain Plover (BD): 100 Mountain Plover; Merlin
4—Mechlar Rd (BD): female Chestnut-collared Longspur
4—Susie Court (BP): Pine Siskin; 14 Am. Goldfinch; 2 Lesser Goldfinch; Carolina Wren
4—Evans Lake area (HR): Swamp Sparrow; Lincoln’s Sparrow; C. Yellowthroat; Dickcissel
4—Mitchell Lake (DE): 2 Long-tailed Duck; Say’s Phoebe; Couch’s Kingbird
4—Blanchard Rd (HR): 2 Harris’s Sparrow
4—Ponder Rd (CH): Say’s Phoebe; several Long-billed Dowitcher; N. Harrier
5—Miller’s Pond Park (MS): 2 Couch’s Kingbird
8—Arrow Mound St (LM): Summer Tanager
8—Calaveras Lake (DE): Surf Scoter; Ruddy Ducks
9—Mitchell Lake (MS)(JO): +/-100 Gadwall; Green-winged Teal; Ruddy Ducks; Eared Grebe; Lesser Scaup; N. Shoveler
10—Southside Lions Park (CH): 5 Audubon’s Yellow-rumped Warbler; Pine Warbler; several E. Bluebird; large numbers Am. Goldfinch; Am. Wigeon; N. Shoveler; Ring-necked Duck; Ring-billed Gull; Belted Kingfisher; Green Kingfisher
10—Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): Scarlet Tanager
10-17—Bitters/Huebner (DE): 2 Common Raven
12—Mitchell Lake (GS)(HR)(LAS): MOTTLED DUCK; N. Shoveler; Gadwall; Redhead; Ring-necked Duck; Lesser Scaup; Hooded Merganser; Ruddy Duck; Red-shouldered Hawk; Red-tailed Hawk; Crested Caracara; Am. Kestrel; C. Moorhen; Spotted Sandpiper; C. Barn Owl; Belted Kingfisher; E. Phoebe; Vermilion Flycatcher; Blue-gray Gnatcatcher; Long-billed Thrasher; Am. Pipit
12—Woodcrest subdivision (DBH): unconfirmed Wood Thrush
14—Huebner Oaks Shopping Ctr (CH): Common Nighthawk
15—Braunig Lake (HR): 12 Bufflehead; Am. Crow; Cave Swallow
15—Calaveras Lake (HR): Bonaparte’s Gull; Forster’s Tern; House Wren; Marsh Wren; Long-billed Thrasher; Am. Pipit; Field, Vesper, Lark, Savannah, Lincoln’s, & Swamp Sparrow; Pyrrhuloxia
18—Randolph AFB (LG): 6 Least Grebe; 2 Greater Yellowlegs; 30+ Least & 1 Stilt Sandpiper; 6 Wilson’s Snipe; 2 Gr. Roadrunner; 3 E. Phoebe; 100+ Am. Pipit; 2 Sprague’s Pipit; 50+ Cedar Waxwing; 18 Chipping, 10+ Vesper, 1 LeConte’s, 50+ White-crowned & 8 Harris’s Sparrow; 3 Purple Finch; 20+ Am. Goldfinch
19—”Devil’s Bend” Park, Medina River (KB, MG, PK): 3 Rusty Blackbirds, Zone-tailed Hawk, Winter Wren
19—Quintana Rd (Steve Hawkins): 200 Brewer’s Blackbirds
21—Government Canyon SNA (GS)(HEW): Am. Kestrel; C. Ground-dove; E. Phoebe; W. Scrub Jay; Verdin; House Wren; Am. Robin; Long-billed Thrasher; Spotted Towhee; Chipping, Vesper, Lark, Savannah & Lincoln’s Sparrow; Am. Goldfinch
22—Avenue A (MC): Great Blue Heron; Wood Duck; Mallard; Barred Owl; Belted Kingfisher; Downy Woodpecker; E. Phoebe; Blue Jay; Blue-gray Gnatcatcher; Gray Catbird; Blue-headed Vireo; Orange-crowned Warbler; Lesser Goldfinch; Am. Goldfinch. (AG): Green Kingfisher; Hermit Thrush
23—Southside Lions Park (GL): Am. Wigeon; N. Shoveler; 2 Pied-billed Grebe; Red-shouldered Hawk; White-eyed Vireo; 2 Am. Crow; 2 Great Blue Heron; several Great Egret; E. Phoebe; 4+ E. Bluebird
24—Encino Park (GL): Yellow-bellied Sapsucker; 2 Great Horned Owl
25—Mitchell Lake (ER): 2 Am. Crow; 4 Red-tailed Hawk; Verdin; Crested Caracara; 3 E. Phoebe; 2 Loggerhead Shrike; 77 Lesser Scaup; 559 N. Shoveler; 7 Great Blue Heron; 28 Great Egret; 3 Am. Robin; Ring-necked Duck; 186 Ruddy Duck; Pied-billed Grebe; C. Moorhen; 5 Vermilion Flycatcher; 11 Green-winged Teal; Bewick’s Wren; Blue-gray Gnatcatcher; 2 Am. Pipit; White-throated Sparrow; 4 Spotted Sandpiper; C. Ground-Dove; Mute Swan; 2 Carolina Wren; 3 Cave Swallow; 7 Eared Grebe; 22 Bonaparte’s Gull; 8 Least Grebe; 10 Hooded Merganser; Snowy Egret; 12 Am. White Pelican; Cattle Egret; 5 Double-crested Cormorant; Bufflehead; Red-shouldered Hawk; 14 Black-crowned Night-Heron. NOTE: On their way to Mitchell Lake this morning, Andy & Wendy Garcia saw 11 Mute Swans on Timberlake Pond at Loop 410 & Moursund Blvd.
26—McAllister Park (BD): male Black-throated Gray Warbler; Pine Warblers were plentiful
31—Perrin Creek (MG): female Scarlet Tanager
31—Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): Wild Turkey

OBSERVERS: AG=April Grunspan; BD=Bob Doe; BP=Ben Plummer; CH=Curt Harwerth; DBH=David B. Harvey; DE=Dodge Engleman; ER=Ernie Roney; GL=Greg Lisciandro; HEW=Chandra Hewitt; HR=Helen Rejzek; JO=Joe Orr; KB=Keith Bartels; LAS=Lynn Lasswell; LG=Larry Galvez; LM=Linda McMahan; MC=Mike Creese; MG=Mariann Golden; MS=Mike Scully; PK=Patricia Peacock; 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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