- RBA
* Texas
* Waco
* March 31, 1999
* TXWA9903.31
- Birds mentioned
Cinnamon Teal
Bald Eagle
Whooping Crane
American Golden Plover
Long-billed Dowitcher
Franklin’s Gull
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Horned Larks
Cave Swallow
Brown Creeper
Solitary Vireo
Golden-cheeked Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Raven
- Transcript
Number: (254) 299-8170
Compiler: E.G. White-Swift birder@earthlink.net
Coverage: Waco Area
Transcriber: E.G. White-Swift mailto:birder@earthlink.net
website: http://www.dallas.net/~birding/ctas.htm
This is the Wednesday, March 31st, update of Waco area birding reports
sponsored by the Central Texas Audubon Society.
On Monday, March 29, at least 20 CAVE SWALLOWS were identified amongst
the swallows and martins along Mill Creek in Salado. These swallows,
considered accidental vagrants just a few years ago, are now appearing
more frequently at more locations throughout the area and this may be
the year for the first nest record McLennan or Bell County.
A flock of 12 AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS first found on Friday, March 26,
continue to be found in the last field before the entrance to the Waco
Metropolitan Area Regional Sewerage System ponds located along the
Brazos River off FM434 1/2 mile east of Loop 340. On Saturday, March
27, the first SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER of the year was found in the
same area. LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS and CINNAMON TEAL continue to be
found at the sewer ponds and the teal are also around the Mill Creek
bridge in Salado in Bell County.
The first good spring migrating flock of FRANKLIN’S GULLS were observed
along I-35 south of
Bruceville-Eddy in near the Bell-McLennan county line on Friday, March
26. Northwest of that same area in Moody (McLennan County) on Friday
morning was a single Eurasian Collared-Dove, the first report of this
feral species not in the Waco or Temple urban areas.
There have been several reports of at least 6 to 10 GOLDEN-CHEEKED
WARBLERS being observed and heard on the Shinnery Ridge Trail on the
southwest side of Meridian State Park in Bosque County about 50 miles
northwest of Waco. BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS can be seen and heard
along
Bee Creek at Meridian State Park and a number were present along the
Lake Waco escarpment Monday through Wednesday of this week as part of
the first good fallout of the spring of warblers and vireos which were
feeding on emerging worms on Live Oak buds. Also adding to the feeding
frenzy were two late BROWN CREEPERS in Woodway.
Two flocks of HORNED LARKS continue to be easily found foraging along
Francis Road near the junction of Steiner Road in southeastern McLennan
County.
A BALD EAGLE continues to be observed at Ft. Parker in Limestone County.
For the record, the compiler recently received a late report of two
well-described and well-observed WHOOPING CRANES on Friday, March 12,
flying in association with a large flock of sandhills over the Eastland
Lakes area near the sewer ponds in McLennan County. This is only the
third report of Whooping Cranes in the county over the last five years
even though thousands of sandhills move through during migration. Also
of note is the report of a COMMON RAVEN on Self Road near Izona in
western Coryell County on Saturday, March 20, one of the few records for
raven in Central Texas.
If you have information to add to this report, please leave a message
after the tone. Thanks for calling.
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E.G. White-Swift.........birder@earthlink.net……(254) 420-1543
Central Texas Audubon Society
Waco, Texas