Not that we're competing 😊 but I got a shot of 3 male Indigo Buntings, 2 Male
Lazuli Buntings and 1 Female Lazuli Bunting. Granted it's now very clear but
they were putting on a show...
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Subject: [leasbirds] Clapp Park, Lubbock
Greetings All:
I spent a remarkable two hours at Clapp Park this evening - where some sparrows
and buntings were putting on quite the show but warblers were a bit sparse.
I was actually able to get all three male Indigo Buntings in a single
photograph and I have several shots with the male Lazuli Bunting and one or two
Indigo Buntings in the same frame - kind of stunning! The only experience I
can think of that was more remarkable for me at the same location was the day,
many years ago, when I had 9 Townsend's Warblers under or in the oaks at the
same time.
There seemed to be three major centers of sparrow activity: the oaks by
Shrubhenge, the open lawns of the arboretum near the visitor center, and the
ground beneath the pines at the northern end of the park. I am using the
minimum numbers based on single, careful counts of birds on the ground - the
actual numbers were higher as some birds were up in trees. The oaks by
Shrubhenge: 114 Chipping Sparrows, 32 Clay-colored Sparrows, 1 female and 1
male Lazuli Buntings, 2 female and 3 male Indigo Buntings, 1 female Painted
Bunting. In the
arboretum: 37 Chipping Sparrows and 19 Clay-colored Sparrows. Under the pines:
25 Chipping Sparrows, 7 Clay-colored Sparrows, and another female Painted
Bunting. The only warbler I found at Shrubhenge was a Nashville Warbler though
there was a male Summer Tanager in a taller tree nearby. Migrants in the
arboretum included 1 Bell's Vireo, 1 MacGillivray's Warbler, and 1 Wilson's
Warbler. Migrants at the pines included 3 Orange-crowned Warblers, 1 Yellow
Warbler, 2 Yellow-rumped Warblers, and 1 Wilson's Warbler.
There were other goodies about but I am itching to get the eBird report out so
... off I go.
Anthony Hewetson; Lubbock
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