Took Mary to HF for her b-day. All sightings were from the roads and the
areas walkable from the Meeting Center. Very little mud yet but it is
getting closer.
Goodest Birding.
Mary and Lou Truex
Tillman - Hackberry Flat Survey, Tillman, Oklahoma, US
May 3, 2025 10:25 AM - 2:26 PM
Protocol: Traveling
17.997 mile(s)
61 species
Canada Goose 2
Blue-winged Teal 210
Northern Shoveler 35
Gadwall 7
Northern Pintail 8
Redhead 2
Ruddy Duck 32
Mourning Dove 175
Common Nighthawk 2
American Coot 65
Black-necked Stilt 8
American Avocet 2
Black-bellied Plover 2
American Golden-Plover 3
Killdeer 12
Snowy Plover 2
Upland Sandpiper 2
Marbled Godwit 2
Short-billed Dowitcher 2 Two birds lifted about 15 feet out from us
and made the really soft tu tu tu call which lacked the tonality or
amplitude of the LBDO keek keek keek calls. Watched them down and drove
up. They were now 75' out but were good thru the scope. Buffy orange neck
and breast. Limited black dotting with no white encirclements, unlike
LBDO. Spotting, not barring down back flanks unlike LBDO.
Long-billed Dowitcher 1025
Wilson's Phalarope 575
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Solitary Sandpiper 5
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Stilt Sandpiper 2
Dunlin 1
Baird's Sandpiper 2
Pectoral Sandpiper 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 4
Franklin's Gull 2
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Eared Grebe 3
White-faced Ibis 85
Snowy Egret 2
Western Cattle-Egret 14
Great Egret 6
Mississippi Kite 1
Swainson's Hawk 2
Least Flycatcher 1
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 9
Barn Swallow 24
Cliff Swallow 14
Chipping Sparrow 2
Clay-colored Sparrow 8
Field Sparrow 1
Lark Sparrow 8
White-crowned Sparrow 27 Actual count
Vesper Sparrow 3
Spotted Towhee 1
Yellow-headed Blackbird 300 Mostly female with 62 males
Eastern Meadowlark 12
Baltimore Oriole 2
Red-winged Blackbird 125
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
Common Grackle 9
Great-tailed Grackle 4
Nashville Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Painted Bunting 1
Dickcissel X Est 300-600 They are literally every 30 yards You
never stop hearing them over 80% of the 7000 acre property
