Bird Sightings/Reports

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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