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Selected Bird Reports, February 2005

1—McAllister Park (BD): Black-throated Gray Warbler (rare here)
2—Mission Trace (AS): 50-100 Cedar Waxwing
2—Mechlar Rd (CH): 47 Mountain Plover; 6 Horned Lark
3—Mitchell Lake (MS): 2 Purple Martin; Am. Kestrel; 100 Cave Swallow
3—Huebner Oaks Elem. (RN): Crested Caracara
4—Louis Pasteur & Medical Dr. (LL): 20 Black-bellied Whistling Duck
4—Mechlar Rd (DE): Am. Pipits; Savannah Sparrows; Horned Larks; McCown’s Longspurs; E. Bluebirds; Am. Robins
4—Avenue A (MC): Blue-headed Vireo; Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned & Pine Warblers
4—McAllister Park (MC): 30 N. Pintail
5—Coyote Path St (RG): ‘dozens’ of Am. Goldfinch; Pine Siskin; House Wren; Chipping Sparrow
5—Esterbrook St (MM): 1 Red-shouldered Hawk gathering branches
6—Mechlar Rd (LG): Burrowing Owl; Am. Pipits; Horned Lark; N. Harrier; Grasshopper Sparrow; Lark Sparrow; Sprague’s Pipit
6—Ensley Field Research Park (HR): 4 Pyrrhuloxia; 7 Spotted Towhee; 2 N. Bobwhite; 2 Verdin; 30 Cedar Waxwing; 25 White-crowned, 3 White-throated, 5 Lark, 9 Field & 25 Chipping Sparrow; Greater Roadrunner; 3 C. Ground-dove; Loggerhead Shrike; House Wren; Hermit Thrush; 15 Am. Robin; 15 Lesser & 65 Am. Goldfinch
6—Leon Creek Trailhead (RS): 2 Curve-billed Thrasher; N. Bobwhite
6—Mitchell Lake (JO): Anhinga; Couch’s Kingbird; Vermilion Flycatcher
6—Bitters & Hwy 281 (HW): 2 Am. Crow
7—Judson & Lookout Rd (LG): Red-tailed Hawk nest on billboard
7—Ellison Duck Pond (EG): Least Grebe; Cormorants; N. Shovelers
8—Mechlar Rd (BH): 13 Mountain Plover
8—Mitchell Lake (GS)(HR): Swamp Sparrow; Osprey; Ring-necked Duck; Crested Caracara; Cave Swallow; Common Yellowthroat; Rufous-crowned Sparrow; Song Sparrow
9—McAllister Park (HR): Black-throated Gray Warbler; Pine Warblers
10—Wal-Mart 1604/281N (CH): 4 Monk Parakeet
11—Mechlar Rd (BD): 300 McCown’s Longspur; Horned Larks; 1 Burrowing Owl US 90 near Mechlar; 1 Nashville Warbler on Jungman Rd
11—Old Weiderstein Rd (DS): Am. Woodcock
11—Guenther St (SHU): Purple Martin; Green Heron
12—Olmos Creek @ Basse (NH): Belted Kingfisher
12—Hausman @ IH-10 (CH): 1000 Cedar Waxwing
12—Old Weiderstein Rd (SS): Common Pauraque
13—McAllister Park (DP): Black-throated Gray Warbler; Orange-crowned, Yellow-rumped, Black-and-white and Pine Warblers; Blue-headed Vireo, Hermit Thrush; 1 Junco; 4 Green-winged Teal; 4 Ring-necked Duck; 40 N. Pintail
13—Mitchell Lake (GS)(HR): Anhinga; Bufflehead; Am. Crow; Song Sparrow
13—Evans Lake (HR): 1 male Cinnamon Teal; Blue-winged Teals; 15 Long-billed Dowitcher; 1 Canvasback; Am. Wigeon; Ring-necked Ducks
14—Ralph Fair Rd (DS): Black-headed Grosbeak
14—Donore Square (PG): Purple Martins
15—North San Antonio (L&JL): 4 Dark-eyed Junco (first in 10 years)
15—Fredericksburg Rd/Gardenia St (MH): 2 White Pelican fly over
15—Randolph AFB (LG): 12 Sandhill Crane fly over
15—Walker Ranch Park (MC): Cassin’s Vireo; N. Flicker
15—Bitters Rd @ N.E. Entrance Dr. (MC): 2 Wild Turkey
15—Shadowcliff Dr (DS): Brown Creeper
18—Mitchell Lake (MS): 6 Least Grebe; 1 N. Pintail, Anhinga
18—Mechlar Rd (JMI): 12 Mountain Plover
19—Mitchell Lake (JO): Long-billed Thrasher; Verdin
19—Mitchell Lake (DE): 2 Barn Swallow; 1 Swamp Sparrow; 30 Hooded Merganser; 8 Bonaparte’s Gull
20—Eisenhower Park (CH): 9 Dark-eyed Junco
21—McAllister Park (CH): Black-throated Green Warbler
23—Encino Park (GL): 1 Greater Roadrunner
25—Evans Lake (RE): 20 Greater White-fronted Goose
26—Locke Hill Feed Store off Huebner (JH): 30 Purple Martin
26—Blue Wing Rd (NH): Lark Buntings
26—Mitchell Lake (ER): 732 N. Shoveler; 7 Gadwall; 1 Am. Kestrel; 4 Am. Robin; 2 E. Phoebe; 1 White-crowned Sparrow; 4 Great Egret; 3 Great Blue Heron; 18 Double-crested Cormorant; 625+ Cave Swallow; 51 Ruddy Duck; 97 Lesser Scaup; 1 Spotted Sandpiper; 92 White Pelican; 2 Neotropic Cormorant; 6 Least Grebe; 2 Blue-winged Teal; 7 Black-crowned Night-Heron; 3 male Cinnamon Teal; 1 Red-tailed Hawk; 1 Purple Martin; 1 Ring-necked Duck
27—Tower Rd, Helotes (RH): 1 Scott’s Oriole; 6 Rufous Hummingbird; first Black-chinned Hummingbirds of season
27—Avenue A (AGR): Green Kingfisher
27—SA Zoo (A&WG): 37 Great Egrets; 2 Red-shouldered Hawk; 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
27—Mitchell Lake (CM): 2 female Red-breasted Merganser
28—Fort Sam Houston Golf Course (LLA): Barn Swallow
28—Olmos Basin Park (JM): 2 Red-shouldered Hawks nests; 1 Barred Owl

OBSERVERS: A&WG=Andy & Wendy Garcia; AGR=April Grunspan; AS=Ann Sheridan; BD=Bob Doe; BH=Bill Holliday; CH=Curt Harwerth; CM=Curt McCamy; DE=Dodge Engleman; DP=David Pueppke; DS=Don Schaezler; EG=Enrico Gomez; ER=Ernie Roney; GL=Greg Lisciandro; GS=Georgina Schwartz; HR=Helen Rejzek; HW=Harry Wilson; JH=Jerry Hernandez; JM=James Middleton; JMI=Jon McIntyre: JO=Joe Orr; L&JL=Lynn & Joan Lasswell; LG=Larry Galvez; LL=Leslie Linehan; LLA=Lynn Lasswell; MH=Michael Howell; MM=Marjorie McFarland; MS=Mike Scully; NH=Nance Hurt; PG=Pam Greenwood; RE=Rowe Elliott; RG=Richard Grant; RH=Ron Huffman; RN=Robin Nowak; RS=Robert Sammel; SHU=Susan Hughes; 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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