Date: 5/9/25 1:24 pm
From: Wedge, Philip C. <pwedge...>
Subject: SW Douglas County birding
I birded the Chicken Creek/Lone Star area (5/9), with a stop at Globe Prairie to cap the morning's birding, listing 72 total species.
At Chicken Creek, notable birds were: Yellow-Billed Cuckoo (7), Eastern Wood-Pewee (4), Acadian Flycatcher (3), Least Flycatcher (1), Yellow-Throated Vireo (1), Swainson's Thrush (1), Ovenbird (1), Tennessee Warbler (2), Nashville Warbler (3), Kentucky Warbler (1), Yellow Warbler (2), Black-Throated Green Warbler (1), Blue Grosbeak (1)

At Colyer Cemetery: Northern Bobwhite (2), Yellow-Billed Cuckoo (2), Swainson's Thrush (1), White-Crowned Sparrow (2), Tennessee Warbler (4), Nashville Warbler (1), Yellow Warbler (1), Blue Grosbeak (1)

At Lone Star Lake: Yellow-Billed Cuckoo (3), Red-Shouldered Hawk (3), Least Flycatcher (2), Swainson's Thrush (2), Black-and-White Warbler (1), Prothonotary Warbler (2), Tennessee Warbler (5), Kentucky Warbler (1), Yellow Warbler (4)

At Globe Prairie: Bobolink (4)

The best birds of the day were definitely the Bobolinks, singing away at the SE corner of Globe Prairie!

Phil Wedge
Lawrence (Douglas Co.)

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