- Birds mentioned
Little Blue Heron
Whip-poor-will
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Yellow-throated Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Nashville Warbler
Black-and-White Warbler
Northern Parula
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Compiler: Bert Frenz, mailto:bert@bafrenz.com
Coverage: Central Brazos Valley, 10 counties near College Station
Transcriber: Bert Frenz
RBA web site: http://www.birdware.com/Lists/rba/_us/tx/heart/rba.htm
This is the Heart-of-Texas Rare Bird Alert sponsored by the Rio Brazos
Audubon Society updated as of Monday, March 22.
The Heart-of-Texas RBA covers ten counties surrounding College Station
(Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Lee, Leon, Madison, Milam, Robertson,
Waller, Washington).
The leading edge of spring arrivals is approaching our area. Summer
residents are active in nest building and egg laying. Ruby-crowned
Kinglets are now singing their melodious territorial songs. Ellen
Ratoosh reports Carolina Chickadees were incubating six eggs in one
of her nesting boxes on the 18th. Eastern Bluebirds have three eggs
in another box, but do not appear to be incubating yet.
Mark Shavers found an early LITTLE BLUE HERON on the Grimes Co. side
of the Navasota River on the 18th.
A WHIP-POOR-WILL heard by Ellen Ratoosh the evening of March 18 in
the flood plain behind her house in Emerald Forest, College Station,
is our second earliest report on record, the earliest being 2/29/76.
Brush Freeman reported hearing Whip-poor-wills on the 15th in Bastrop
Co. to the south of the Brazos Valley.
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRDS have returned to backyard feeders in
Bryan and College Station. Sandy Dillard reported one on the 17th
and Kitty Anding had one on the 19th.
An early YELLOW-THROATED VIREO showed up in Mark Shaver’s yard in
College Station on the 14th.
Mike Carlo reports BLUE-HEADED VIREO, NASHVILLE WARBLER,
NORTHERN PARULA, BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER and BLUE-
GRAY GNATCATCHERS at Lick Creek Park and on the nature
trail behind College Hills school this past weekend.
The Rio Brazos Audubon Society meeting will be March 23 at 7:30 PM
at the College Station Conference Center on 1300 George Bush Drive.
Note the change in date from the usual 3rd Tuesday meeting.
The “Checklist and Seasonal Distribution - Birds of the Central Brazos
Valley, Texas” is available. Send $1.00 and a self-addressed stamped
(32 cents) business envelope to Jim Anding, Rio Brazos Audubon Society
5060 Cole Lane, College Station, TX 77845
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Bert Frenz
mailto:bert@bafrenz.com
web site: http://www.bafrenz.com/birds/index.htm