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Selected Bird Reports, October 2004
FOS=First of season sighting
2--OP Schnabel Park (Helen Rejzek): FOS N. Flicker

3--Spring Branch (Leslie Linehan): 300 hawks: mostly Swainson's, 2 Red-tails, 12 Mississippi Kites

3--Northwest Crossing (Scott Gruwell): Black-and-white, Orange-crowned, Blackburnian, 2 Nashville Warblers; 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

3--Mitchell Lake (Greg Lisciandro): Broad-winged Hawk, Redheads, Osprey, 2 Am. Crow

4--Bamberger Park & Leon Creek (Rejzek): FOS Lincoln's Sparrow, Black-billed (?) Cuckoo,

4--Avenue A (Rejzek): Black-headed Grosbeak.

4--Botanical Garden (Rejzek): Gray Catbird, FOS Am. Robin

4--Mitchell Lake (Ray Kutzman): 2 Pectoral Sandpipers (late?), 1 Wilson's Phalarope, 1 Peregrine Falcon, Long-billed Dowitchers

4--Mitchell Lake (Ernie Roney): 2 N. Shovelers

5--Smithson Valley (Linda Martin): FOS Am. Kestrel, Rufous Hummingbirds

6--Mitchell Lake (Mike Scully): Anhinga

6--Miller's Pond (Andy Hudson): Loggerhead Shrike, Couch's Kingbird

7--Evans Lake (Rejzek): 3 FOS Wilson's Snipe

7--Southcross/Pecan Valley area (Kathy Saucier): 1500 Swainson's Hawks

8--Perrin Creek (Mariann Golden): Great Horned Owl

8--Utopia, Bandera Co. (Mitch Heindel): Hutton's Vireo

8--Graytown-Pfeil Rd (Ron Henry Strait): +/- 1000 Swainson's Hawks

9--Old Wiederstein Rd (Susan and Don Schaezler): Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Meadowlark

10--Cook's Slough, Uvalde Co. (Bob and Sylvia Rasa): Least Grebe, Wild Turkey, Caracara, Eurasian Collared-Dove, N. Flicker, Vermilion Flycatcher, Couch's Kingbird, Lesser Goldfinch

11--Comfort Sewer Ponds (Elton Stilwell): 1 Red-necked Grebe

14--McAllister Park (Rejzek): 3 N. Pintail

14--Calaveras Lake (Georgina Schwartz): Vesper Sparrow, 1 meadowlark, 1 Forster's Tern, 4 Osprey

15--Rio Medina, Medina Co. (Jan McClintock): FOS Spotted Towhee

15--Judson Nature Trails (Steve Hawkins): Mourning & Orange-crowned Warblers, Blue-headed Vireo

16--Mitchell Lake (Sumner Dana): 2 Myrtle Warblers in net

16--Canyon Lake Park Causeway (Bob Doe): 2 Sandhill Cranes

16--Ware-Seguin Rd/Loop 1604 (Lee Clauson): 1 Peregrine Falcon

16--Cibolo Nature Center, Boerne (Rejzek): Red-breasted Nuthatch

17--Rio Medina (McClintock): FOS Pine Siskins

17--Mitchell Lake (Lynne Stilwell, Rejzek): 1 Black Phoebe, 2 Pyrrhuloxia

17--Mitchell Lake (Schwartz): 1 Lesser Nighthawk

18--Acequia Trail (Scully): FOS Hermit Thrush

19--Avenue A (Creese): FOS Yellow-rumped Warbler

19--Mechlar Rd, west Bexar Co (Doe): 12 Sprague's Pipit, 10 Caracara, 100+ Killdeer, 1 Yellow-headed Blackbird, Eastern & Western Meadowlarks, Vesper & Savannah Sparrows; Green Kingfisher at Medina River/Gross Lane

19--Universal City (Ira Sterling): 2 leucistic House Sparrows

20--New Braunfels airport fields (Doe): Long-billed Curlew, 8 Am. Golden-Plover, Burrowing Owl

20--281 at Isom Rd (David Pueppke): 1 Cooper's Hawk

22--Old Wiederstein Rd (Schaezlers): Swainson's Thrush, Long-billed Thrasher

23--Ponder Rd (Curt Harwerth): 10 Yellow-headed Blackbirds

23--Bamberger Park (Harwerth): 1 Sedge Wren

23--New Braunfels airport fields (Schwartz, Pueppke, Martin Reid, Sheridan Coffey, et al.): 1 Long-billed Curlew, 15 Sandhill Cranes, 3 Sprague's Pipits, 1 Burrowing Owl

24--Gillette Rd, Wilson Co (Libby Huffman, Reid, Coffey, Schwartz, Andy Garcia, R & T Hillstromb, Rejzek): 1 Magnificent Hummingbird (gone by the the 25th)

25--Timberwood Park (Robin Nowak): Am. Robins, E. Phoebe, Curve-billed Thrasher

25--151 at Ingram Road (Rejzek): 2 Harris's Hawk

28--Mitchell Lake (Reid): Red-necked Phalarope

29--Loop 1604 between Lockhill and Military (Harwerth): Common Raven

30--Mitchell Lake (Creese): 1 Dunlin

31--Halff Ranch, Frio Co. (Reid, Coffey, Willie Sekula): 1 Rufous-capped Warbler; Black-throated Gray Warbler; Hammond's Flycatcher; 3 Sprague's Pipit; Green Jays; Olive Sparrow

31--Belvoir Dr (Schwartz): 1 male Rufous Hummer since October 1

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