The bird numbers dropped hard from the weekend but still lots of species. Water is still great and we have many nesters out in the grass. I do not disturb them nor count them right now. All sighting were still visible from the roads as the levees are undrivable still.
Tillman - Hackberry Flat Survey, Tillman, Oklahoma, US May 14, 2025 10:36 AM - 2:28 PM Protocol: Traveling 24.08 mile(s) 50 species
Wood Duck 2 Blue-winged Teal 192 Northern Shoveler 99 Mallard 8 Northern Pintail 2 Greater Scaup 1 Con't bird Ruddy Duck 41 Mourning Dove 23 Common Nighthawk 6 Sora 3 American Coot 64 Black-necked Stilt 14 American Avocet 27 Black-bellied Plover 3 American Golden-Plover 33 Killdeer 14 Snowy Plover 1 Long-billed Dowitcher 2 Wilson's Phalarope 72 Spotted Sandpiper 2 Solitary Sandpiper 6 Lesser Yellowlegs 16 Greater Yellowlegs 13 Stilt Sandpiper 29 Baird's Sandpiper 24 White-rumped Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 8 Pectoral Sandpiper 4 Semipalmated Sandpiper 10 Franklin's Gull 1 Black Tern 54 Eared Grebe 3 White-faced Ibis 23 Black-crowned Night Heron 3 Snowy Egret 4 Great Egret 5 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Western Kingbird 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 7 Barn Swallow 8 Cliff Swallow 8 House Sparrow 2 Clay-colored Sparrow 1 Yellow-headed Blackbird 85 Remnants from the 300 flock here last week All females and 1st yr males Eastern Meadowlark 6 Bullock's Oriole 1 Red-winged Blackbird 58 Common Grackle 47 Painted Bunting 1 Dickcissel 175
