Greetings All:
Appetite whetted by the night drive before, I spent most of 20 May 2017
wandering about Lynn County.
Highlights included 4 Blue-winged Teals at the FM 2956 Playa, 2 Northern
Shovelers at the FM 1054 x FM 1313 Playa, 4 Canvasbacks at the the FM 1054
x FM 1313 Playa, 8 Scaled Quails at the CR 25 x FM 1054 Woodlot, 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoos at Tahaka Lake Pasture, 1 Virginia Rail at the CR EE
Wetlands, 2 Black-necked Stilts at the CR 28 x FM 1054 Playa, 6
Black-necked Stilts at the FM 2956 Playa, 2 Black-necked Stilts at Tahoka
Lake Pasture, 2 American Avocets at the CR 28 x FM 1054 Playa, 4 American
Avocets at the FM 1054 x FM 1313 Playa, 6 Snowy Plovers at Tahoka Lake, 60
Stilt Sandpipers at the FM 2956 Playa, 12 Long-billed Dowitchers at the FM
2956 Playa, 50 Wilson's Phalaropes at the FM 2956 Playa, 2 Black Terns at
the FM 1054 x FM 1313 Playa, 28 Cattle Egrets at the CR 28 x FM 1054 Playa,
1 Harris's Hawk in southeast Lynn County, 1 Western Wood Pewee at Tahoka
Lake Pasture, 1 Bell's Vireo at the CR EE Wetlands, 2 Cave Swallows at the
FM 1054 x FM 1313 Playa, 1 Cave Swallow near Tahoka, 2 Cave Swallows at
Tahoka Lake Pasture, 1 Lesser Goldfinch at the CR 28 x FM 1054 Playa, 1
American Goldfinch at the CR EE Wetlands, 1 Black-and-white Warbler at
Tahoka Lake Pasture, 1 Nashville Warbler at the CR 25 x FM 1054 Woodlot, 2
Yellow Warblers at the CR 25 x FM 1054 Woodlot, 3 Yellow Warblers at Tahoka
Lake Pasture, 1 Wilson's Warbler at the CR 25 x FM 1054 Woodlot, 2 Canyon
Towhees at Tahoka Lake Pasture, and 1 Chipping Sparrow at Tahoka Lake
Pasture.
Not bad for a day late in the migratory season; Anthony 'Fat Tony'
Hewetson; Lubbock
