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Selected Bird Reports, January 2003
1—Calaveras Lake (IAW): 2 Violet-green Swallow
1—Mitchell Lake (D&LE): Eared Grebe; Vesper, Song, Lincoln’s & White-crowned Sparrow; 5 Vermilion Flycatcher; 3 Hooded Merganser
1—Olmos Park (LE): 2 Great Horned Owl; 1 Rufous Hummingbird
1—El Dorado Ponds (MC): 2 Couch’s Kingbird. (SG): Am. Bittern; Ring-necked Duck; Am. Crow
1—San Antonio Airport (MC): 2 Wild Turkey
1—Live Oak City Park (FC): Great Horned Owl on nest
2—Walker Ranch Park (HR) (MC): Summer Tanager
3—Mitchell Lake (RH): Vermilion Flycatcher; Least Grebe; Loggerhead Shrike; Black-crowned Night-heron; 1 Ring-necked Duck; Red-shouldered Hawk; Golden-crowned Kinglet; Belted Kingfisher; Spotted Sandpiper; Least Sandpipers
3—Espada Dam (MS): Say’s Phoebe; Yellow-shafted Flicker; Osprey; Belted Kingfisher; Golden-crowned Kinglet; 3 Hermit Thrush; Am. Robins; Couch’s Kingbird; E. Towhee
4—Walker Ranch Park (J&RW): Cactus Wren; Spotted Towhee; White-throated, Lincoln’s & Field Sparrow
4—El Dorado Ponds (J&RW): 2 Couch’s Kingbird; Am. Wigeon; Gadwall; Mallard; N. Shoveler; Ring-necked Duck; Lesser Scaup; Pied-billed Grebe
4—Walker Ranch Park (SG)(JM): Winter Wren; Merlin; Blue-headed Vireo; Spotted Towhee
5—Mitchell Lake (HR): 7 Eared Grebe; 2 Sora; 6 Vermilion Flycatcher; 1 Blue Jay; 5 Am. Pipit
5—Calaveras Lake (MC): 1 Glossy Ibis; 7 other Ibis; 4 Osprey; 4 Belted Kingfisher; 2 Sprague’s Pipit
6—Live Oak City Park (EB): Hermit Thrush; 6 Golden-crowned Kinglet; Ring-billed Gulls
6—UT Health Science Center (LL): 1 Peregrine Falcon
8—Calaveras Lake (GS): 2 Horned Grebe
9—Mitchell Lake (MS): 7 Wilson’s Snipe; Neotropic Cormorant; 2 Sora
10—Randolph AFB (LG): 1 Winter Wren; Vermilion Flycatcher; Greater Scaup; Least Grebe
10—Acequia at Espada Dam (MS): Osprey; Cooper’s Hawk; Yellow-shafted Flicker; Green Kingfisher; Am. Crow; Blue Jay; 50 Am. Robin; 1 Hermit Thrush; 20 Am. Goldfinch
11—Olmos Basin (D&SB): 100 Am. Robin; Golden-crowned Kinglet; Downy Woodpecker; Hermit Thrush; 25 Am. Goldfinch
11—Mitchell Lake (A&WG): Least Grebe; Ruddy Duck; Pied-billed Grebe; Gadwall; Am. Pipit; 4 Forster’s Tern
14—El Dorado Ponds (DE): Am. Bittern
14—Government Canyon (GS)(HR)(LMM): 1 Black-throated Sparrow; Common Ground-dove; Greater Roadrunner; Curve-billed Thrasher; Pine Warbler; Cedar Waxwings; Spotted Towhee; 6 E. Bluebird
15—1604 between UTSA & IH-10 (CH): 6 N. Bobwhite
15—Mitchell Lake (RW): Bronzed Cowbird; Sora; 1 Audubon’s Warbler; Wilson’s Snipe; Vermilion Flycatcher; E. Phoebe
15—McAllister Park (WS): N. Pintail; Gadwall; Green-winged Teal; Am. Wigeon; 3 Wood Duck; Hermit Thrush; Blue-headed Vireo; Pine Warbler; Golden-crowned Kinglet; Scrub Jay; Spotted Towhee; Loggerhead Shrike; Am. Crow; many Am. Robin
17—Rike Rd (KB): 1 Rufous Hummingbird
18—Acequia at Espada Dam (MS): 2 Green Kingfisher
19—Babcock N of UTSA (LM): 1 Pine Warbler; 1 Nashville Warbler; Orange-crowned Warbler; Yellow-rumped Warbler
19—Mitchell Lake (BW): 301 White Pelican; 2 Neotropic Cormorant; 2 Great Blue Heron; 10 Great Egret; 5 Green-winged Teal; 2 Cinnamon Teal; 180 N. Shoveler; 30 Ruddy Duck; 4 N. Harrier; 2 Harris’s Hawk; 9 Red-tailed Hawk; 1 Crested Caracara; 3 Black-necked Stilt; 20 Short-billed Dowitcher; 3 Bonaparte’s Gull; 1 Belted Kingfisher; 2 E. Phoebe; 2 Vermilion Flycatcher; 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher; 2 Loggerhead Shrike; 2 White-crowned Sparrow
20—Live Oak City Park (FC): Long-billed Thrasher; Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
20—Commanche Lookout Park (MG): 2 Fox Sparrow
20—El Dorado Ponds (MG): 2 Couch’s Kingbird; 1 Am. Bittern
20—Cagnon Rd (HR): Curve-billed Thrasher; Cactus Wren; Pyrrhuloxia
20—Acequia at Espada Dam (K&JM): Green Kingfisher
22—Medio Creek at Columbia (XX): 7 House Wren; 2 Winter Wren; 1 Song, 5 White-throated, 10 Lincoln’s, 30 Chipping & 4 Field Sparrow; 1 Spotted Towhee
23—Medina River Ranch (DM): Zone-tailed Hawk; 2 Ringed Kingfisher; Pine Siskins
25—Jackson-Keller Rd (MC): 1 Purple Finch
25—Avenue A (MC): Pine Warbler; Yellow-belled Sapsucker
25—SA Botanical Gardens (MC): Hermit Thrush; Long-billed Thrasher; Wilson’s Warbler
25—Calaveras Lake (SC): 15 White-faced Ibis; Cinnamon Teal; 4 Rough-winged Swallow; Spotted Towhee; Swamp Sparrow; 1 Hybrid Cinnamon/Blue-winged Teal
25—Braunig Lake (SC): 1 Purple Martin; 1000 Cave Swallow. (D&LE): 3 Cinnamon Teal; Bufflehead; Bonaparte’s Gull; Ring-billed Gull;
28—Friedrich Park (DE): 1 Hutton’s Vireo; 13 Lesser Goldfinch
29—VA Med Center (WB): 400 Cedar Waxwing; 1 Blue Jay
30—John Jay High School (MS): 2 Purple Martin
31—Belvoir Dr (GS): 2 Rufous Hummingbird all month.
OBSERVERS: Andy & Wendy Garcia; BW=Betty Walters; CH=Curt Harwerth; D&LE=Dodge & Lorna Engleman; DE=Dodge Engleman; DM=David Montgomery; EB=Eric Brierley; D&SB=Dick & Shirley Bartels; FC=Fran Campbell; GS=Georgina Schwartz; HR=Helen Rejzak; IAW=Isadora Arevalo Wong; J&RW=Jill & Richard Wood; JM=Jane McNeil; K&JM=Karen & Jerry Moulder; KB=Keith Bartels; LE=Lily Engles; LG=Larry Galvez; LL=Leslie Linehan; LM=Larry Mandarino; MC=Mike Creese; MG=Mariann Golden; MS=Mike Scully; RH=Ron Hillstromb; RW=Richard Wood; SC=Sheridan Coffey; SG=Sandy Guerrero; WB=Walter Bauer; WS=Warren Stricker; XX=Unidentified
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