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Selected Bird Reports, July 2002

1--Elmendorf Lake (CA): 1 Little Blue Heron; 1000 Snowy & Cattle Egrets

4--North Bexar County (WB): 1 Common Nighthawk

4--Mitchell Lake (MG & GS): 1 Tricolored Heron; 3 Black-bellied Whistling Duck; 4 Ruddy Duck; 1 Swainson's Hawk; Bell's Vireo; Blue Grosbeak

5--Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): 1 male Golden-cheeked Warbler

5--Grandview Shopping Ctr (I-10 & Callaghan) (GS): 1 Common Nighthawk

6--Mitchell Lake (SC): 1 Least Grebe; 3 Wood Stork; Northern Bobwhite; Common Ground Dove; Orchard Oriole; Bullock's oriole

6--West Creek (HR): 16 Black-chinned Hummingbird; 2 Greater Roadrunner; Empidonax (sp); 8 Painted Bunting; 1 Bronzed Cowbird; 1 Orchard
Oriole; Common Ground Dove

6--Judson Nature Trails (GS): 1 Amer. Crow

8--Mitchell Lake (CH): 1 White-faced Ibis; 8 Little Blue Heron; 1 Yellow-crowned Night-heron; 3 Black-bellied Whistling Duck; 3 Blue-winged Teal; 2 Northern Shoveler; 8 Common Ground Dove; 1 Northern Flicker; 3 Blue Grosbeak; 6 Painted Buntin; 5 Orchard Oriole; 3 Bullock's Oriole

9--I-35 N at 410 W (AC): 1 Swainson's Hawk

9--USAA (RA): 2 Amer. Robins

10--Cagnon Rd (GS & HR): 2 Least Grebe; 1 Amer. Crow

10--Old Pue Rd south of US 90 (GS,HR,MG): 1 Greater Roadrunner; 1 Harris' Hawk; Verdin

10--Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): 1 Chuck-will's-Widow

11--Mitchell Lake (GS): 1 Brown-crested Flycatcher; 1 Bronzed Cowbird; 5 Bullock's Oriole

12--Miller's Pond (MH): Many Chimney Swifts; many Purple Martins; 4 Little Blue Heron; 1 Common Moorhen; Green Heron; Snowy Egrets; Black-chinned Hummingbirds; 2 Loggerhead Shrike

13--Cagnon Rd (HR): 2 Least Grebe

13--Mitchell Lake (A&WG): Tricolored Heron; Barn Owl; 15 unid sandpipers; Blue Grosbeak; Little Blue Herons; Blue-winged Teal; Orchard Oriole; Bank Swallow; Barn Swallows

13--Judson Nature Trails (SB): 1 Black & White Warbler; 1 Downy Woodpecker; 1 Great Crested Flycatcher; 1 Loggerhead Shrike; 1 White-eyed Vireo; 2 Lesser Goldfinch

14--Belvoir Dr (GS): 2 Purple Martin

14--Loop 1604 at Old Pue Rd (TN): Swainson's Hawk; 2 Harris' Hawk; Greater Roadrunner; Verdin; Bewick's Wren; Blue Grosbeak; Painted Bunting; Bullock's Oriole

14--Cagnon Rd (RK): 2 Least Grebe

16--Cagnon Rd (SG): 2 Least Grebe

16--UTHSCSA (AC): Red-tailed Hawk on buildings

18--Mitchell Lake (MG): 5 Neotropic Cormorant; White-faced Ibis; 1 Wood Duck; 13 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

19--Mitchell Lake (GS, RK): 15 Blue-winged Teal; 1 Amer. Avocet; 2 Forster's Tern

20--Mitchell Lake (RA): 3 Bell's Vireo

20--Somerset Rd at 1604 (HR): 2 Spotted Sandpiper

21--Mitchell Lake (HR): 1 Yellow-headed Blackbird; 20 Black-bellied Whistling Duck; 2 Lesser Scaup; 1 Western Kingbird; 4 Tricolored Heron

22--Spacious Sky St (RN): 2 Western Kingbirds joined at the hip sharing a leg

23--Southside Lions Park area (MC): 2 Great Horned Owl; 1 Common Nighthawk

23--Government Canyon (GS,HR,KG): 30 Painted Bunting; 1 Long-billed Thrasher; 1 Canyon Towhee; 1 Black-throated Sparow; 2 Common Raven; 1 Crested Caracara; 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

24--Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): Eastern Wood-Pewee

25--Kyle Seale Pkwy at Golf Course bridge (KG): 3 Indigo Bunting

26--Mitchell Lake (WD): 3 Greater Roadrunner

26--Old Wiederstein Rd (SS): 1 Wild Turkey; Northern Bobwhite; Greater Roadrunner

27--Mitchell Lake (SC): 1 female Lesser Scaup; Bell's Vireo; 5 Stilt Sandpiper; Tricolored Heron; 24 Little Blue Heron; Baird's Sandpiper; Swainson's Hawk; 2 Blue Grosbeak; 1 Lark Sparrow; Orchard Oriole; Bullock's Oriole

28--Randolph AFB (LG): family of Swainson's Hawks near south gate; Couch's Kingbird and White-tipped Dove at Golf Course

28--Walker Ranch Park (SC): 1 Traill's Flycatcher; Black & White Warbler; Eastern Wood-Pewee; Painted Bunting; Lesser Goldfinch

31--Spacious Sky St (RN): Rufous Hummingbird

31--Mitchell Lake (D&LE): 1 Reddish Egret; Barn Owl; 2 Short-billed Dowitcher; 3 Black Tern; 1 Amer. Avocet; 2 Greater Yellowleg; 1 Lesser Yellowleg; +/- 10 Least Sandpiper; 2 Ruddy Duck; 2 female Lesser Scaup; 60 Black-bellied Whistling Duck

31--Braunig Lake (D&LE): 1 Laughing Gull; 3 Dunlin; 2 Forster's Tern; 5 Mallard

31--Calaveras Lake (RS): 1 Amer. Bittern

31--Universal City P O (D&LE): 1 Ringed Turtle Dove; 1 Eurasian Collared Dove

OBSERVERS: A&WG=Andy & Wendy Garcia; AH=Ahsan Choudary; CA=Carlos Araoz; CH=Curt Harwerth; D&LE=Dodge & Lorna Engleman; GS=Georgina Schwartz; HR=Helen Rejzek; KG=Kathy Gaudet; MC=Mike Creese; MG=Mariann Golden; MH=Maury Heiman; RA=Robert Arredondo; RK=Ray Kutzman; RN=Robin Nowak; RS=Richard Sims; SB=Shirley Bartels; SC=Sheridan Coffey; SG=Scott Gruwell; SS=Susan Schaezler; TN=Tracey Norris; WB=Walter Bauer; WD=Wayne Druilhet

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