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Birds seen on 13 February TLAS field trip to Fort Hood:
Green-winged Teal 1+
Ring-necked Duck 30
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Black Vulture 2
Turkey Vulture 16
Northern Harrier 7
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
American Coot 1
Killdeer 1
Mourning Dove 39
Burrowing Owl 1
Vermilion Flycatcher 1 female below Starne's Lake #2 American Crow 1
Horned Lark 9 - gravel pad at jct of Elijah and Georgetown Rds Carolina
Wren 1 Northern Mockingbird 4 Sprague's Pipit 2+ Vesper Sparrow 2 Savannah
Sparrow 62 McCown's Longspur 4 (2 males, 2 female) - gravel pad at jct
of Elijah and Georgetown Rds; 1st record for Fort Hood Chestnut-collared
Longspur ~500 Northern Cardinal 5 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Western Meadowlark
1 meadowlark sp. 25
Randy Pinkston and Corky and Joye Johnson report FOS Purple
Martins on 13 Feb at the Sammons Golf Course in Temple