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	TEXAS 2006 Hill Country Big Bend NP Davis Mountains
Bert Filemyr, Connie Goldman, Karl Lukens, Art McMorris, Ann Scott

(On Tuesday April 25th we had the wonderful experience of spending the day birding in Kerr County with Tony Gallucci. Here is his report of that day which was posted on TexBirds)

Snuck away for a day's work with some fine folks from the Delaware Valley
Ornithological Club, and we had a rather outstanding day in Kerr County.
Among the highlights were 2 singing male Hutton's Vireos in our faces at
Kerr WMA (photographed), a Crested Caracara and a Great Egret at Boneyard
Draw, and a flock of Franklin's Gulls at Ingram Dam Lake. We had
unforgivable looks at Golden-cheeked Warbler and Black-capped Vireo. And we
also had a great raptor passage at Heart of the Hills Fisheries Research
Center that included Peregrine, streaming Mississippi Kites, Zone-tail,
Osprey, and Sharpie. Also there were Yellow-headed Blackbirds and an
Olive-sided Flycatcher. We had 8 raptors, 6 doves, and 6 vireos; and a total
of 92 species for the day, which is the largest single day number i've had
in Kerr County in a few years.

25 April 2006
TX: KERR COUNTY, including Kerr WMA (Bobcat Pasture, Kerr Springs, Main
Road, Doe Pasture, Rock Pasture, North Owl Pasture, Headquarters),
Lynxhaven, Ingram Dam Lake, Heart of the Hills Fisheries Research Center,
Guadalupe River, North Fork, South Fork, Johnson Creek, Rio Vista, Ingram

Bert Filemyr, Art McMorris, Karl Lukens, Connie Goldman, Ann Scott, Tony
Gallucci

Some unusual, rare, or unexpected species for Kerr County, and special Hill
Country species ARE IN ALL CAPS

Insects low because of nearly 100% overcast; some light drizzly rain for
about 30 minutes; full sun for about 30 minutes

[ ] Exotic, Feral, Captive, Domestic; * photos tg; # filmed tg; (fos) = for
tg in Kerr Co.

1 Pipevine Swallowtail
1 Orange Sulphur
2 Sleepy Orange
1 Reakirt?s Blue
1 Gulf Fritillary
1 Red Satyr (fos)
1 Question Mark (fos)
2 Horace?s Duskywing
1 Sachem

10 Common Green Darner
3 Blue Dasher (fos)
1 Eastern Pondhawk
1 Black Saddlebags
1 clubtail sp.
1 baskettail sp.
2 Violet Dancer (fos)
1 Aztec Dancer
1 Familiar Bluet

1f TEXAS BLACK PHANAEUS BEETLE *#(fos)

+ Carpenter Bee
+ Honeybee
+ Red Harvester Ant

4 Guadalupe Bass
2 Koi

1 Red-eared Slider
10 Texas Slider

2 Bullfrog
20 Blanchard?s Cricket Frog
1 dor Gulf Coast Toad

2 Mallard
9 Wood Duck
3 Wild Turkey
[1 Blue Peafowl]
[1 Golden Pheasant]
[2 Northern Bobwhite]
[10 Olde English Bantam Chicken (Black, Red Pyle, Black-breasted Red,
Porcelain D?Uccle)]
5 Great Blue Heron
1 GREAT EGRET
2 Green Heron (fos)
20 Cattle Egret (fos)
40 Turkey Vulture
120 Black Vulture
2 Osprey
25 MISSISSIPPI KITE (fos)
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk
2 Red-tailed Hawk
3 Red-shouldered Hawk
2 ZONE-TAILED HAWK
2 PEREGRINE FALCON
1 CRESTED CARACARA (about 10th County Record)
1 Killdeer
1 Spotted Sandpiper
6 FRANKLIN?S GULL (long time since last record)
[1 Amboina King Parrot]
2 COMMON GROUND-DOVE (scarce in county)
2 Inca Dove
80 White-winged Dove
20 Mourning Dove
[2 Rock Pigeon]
[6 Eurasian Collared Dove]
[6 Ringed Turtle-Dove]
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2 Chimney Swift
5 Black-chinned Hummingbird
1 GREEN KINGFISHER
8 Golden-fronted Woodpecker
3 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
8 Ash-throated Flycatcher
1 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER (rare migrant)
2 Easten Wood-Pewee (fos)
5 Vermilion Flycatcher
20 Western Kingbird (fos)
30 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
10 Eastern Phoebe
2 Red-eyed Vireo
4 Yellow-throated Vireo
8 BLACK-CAPPED VIREO
2m HUTTON?S VIREO* (about 8th County Record)
30 White-eyed Vireo
2 Bell?s Vireo (isolated population) (fos)
5 Western Scrub-Jay
12 Common Raven
40 Purple Martin
50 Barn Swallow
400 Cliff Swallow
15 CAVE SWALLOW
10 Tree Swallow (fos)
2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow (fos)
15 Carolina Chickadee
20 Black-crested Titmouse
6 Carolina Wren
30 Bewick?s Wren
2 Canyon Wren
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
30 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4 Eastern Bluebird
3 Northern Mockingbird
8 AMERICAN PIPIT* (scarce here) (fos)
[20 European Starling]
2 Orange-crowned Warbler
12 Nashville Warbler
6 Black-and-White Warbler
2 Yellow-throated Warbler
3m GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER
1 NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH* (scarce migrant) (fos)
5 Yellow-beasted Chat (fos)
20 Summer Tanager
30 Field Sparrow
10 Chipping Sparrow
25 Clay-colored Sparrow (fos)
40 Lark Sparrow
2 Vesper Sparrow
3 Savannah Sparrow
30 Northern Cardinal
4 Blue Grosbeak
20 Painted Bunting (fos)
6 Indigo Bunting
50 Great-tailed Grackle
1 Common Grackle
4 Red-winged Blackbird
6 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD (irregular migrant) (fos)
12 Brown-headed Cowbird
3 Orchard Oriole
30 House Finch
3 Lesser Goldfinch
[20 House Sparrow]
[1 Orange Weaver]
[1 African Silverbill]
[1 Paradise Whydah]

[1 Red Kangaroo]
20 Edwards Plateau Fox Squirrel
1 Rock Squirrel
[40 Axis Deer]
7 White-tailed Deer
[8 Blackbuck]
[Cattle (Limousin, Charolais, Red Brangus, Hereford, Simmental, Gelbvieh,
Black Angus, Texas
Longhorn)]
[Goat (Boer, Spanish, Angora)]
[15 Mouflon]
[Sheep (Medium Wool)]
[Horse (Quarterhorse, Overo, Tobiano, Thoroughbred, Arabian)]
[Sicilian Donkey]

tony gallucci
hunt, tx, usa
http://milkriver.blogspot.com