Date: 5/2/25 3:04 pm
From: my AT&T YAHOO MAIL <shenthorn205...>
Subject: Re: Hackberry Flat 5-1-25
Thanks for the update! GREAT

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On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM, Louis Truex<ml2x1954...> wrote: Hello Everyone,
The rain and runoff have filled HF to the brim.  There is water in almostevery unit and the lake is full.  No mud available right now but Kelvin is workingon making that happen.  Here is my list for today from the roads and not includingthe North end bc that road is too muddy to drive.
Tillman - Hackberry Flat Survey, Tillman, Oklahoma, US
May 1, 2025 1:22 PM - 3:46 PM
Protocol: Traveling
15.58 mile(s)
42 species (+2 other taxa)

Blue-winged Teal  58
Northern Shoveler  16
Gadwall  4
Northern Pintail  5
Greater Scaup  1     Con't bird
Ruddy Duck  44
Northern Bobwhite  4
Mourning Dove  160
American Coot  14
Black-necked Stilt  16
American Avocet  5
Killdeer  7
Upland Sandpiper  2
Hudsonian Godwit  4
Marbled Godwit  1
Long-billed Dowitcher  375
Wilson's Phalarope  240
Solitary Sandpiper  4
Lesser Yellowlegs  14
Greater Yellowlegs  6
Semipalmated Sandpiper  5
Glossy Ibis  1     Gray legs with red ankles/knees.  Blue facial outline with no plum in facial skin
White-faced Ibis  175
Glossy x White-faced Ibis (hybrid)  1     Correct Glossy legs but plum facial skin    Correct blue facial outline
Western Cattle-Egret  22
Great Egret  7
Swainson's Hawk  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Loggerhead Shrike  2
Horned Lark  2
Barn Swallow  4
Northern Mockingbird  1
Grasshopper Sparrow  1
Clay-colored Sparrow  2
Lark Sparrow  17
Vesper Sparrow  6     White tail edging with eye-ring and red shoulder patches
Savannah Sparrow  8
Lincoln's Sparrow  1
Yellow-headed Blackbird  54     Individually counted
Eastern Meadowlark  6
Western/Eastern Meadowlark  8
Red-winged Blackbird  180
Great-tailed Grackle  4
Dickcissel  30

View this checklist online at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ebird.org/checklist/S231737481__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!4SGyuXLi63f6Mz_tUKtQOoklAvJhseJPnHqXdJf1QICxzq4AhwnAwwApbsZx5EM4HEWj3oP9oryTh0_qtUpYc0E$ [ebird[.]org]
I also had LBDO and SNPL in the cotton fields east of the Gin on Hwy 70.
Goodest Birding,
Lou Truex

 
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