Date: 6/3/25 4:34 am From: Louis Truex <ml2x1954...> Subject: Hackberry Flat 6-2-2025
Hello Everyone,
The nesting waterfowl numbers is amazing right now. Always amazes me what the place is like when there is a ton of water there. 52 species is a good day for a noon start and not getting at the North side.
Tillman - Hackberry Flat Survey, Tillman, Oklahoma, US Jun 2, 2025 11:37 AM - 3:13 PM Protocol: Traveling 15.828 mile(s) 52 species (+4 other taxa)
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 1 Orange bill, tawny head, large white wing bars Blue-winged Teal 270 Blocked in 5's Cinnamon Teal 2 Cont birds Northern Shoveler 77 Actual count Gadwall 2 Mallard 28 Northern Pintail 16 Green-winged Teal 3 Cont birds Redhead 14 Ruddy Duck 46 Mourning Dove 21 Common Nighthawk 8 King Rail 1 Sora 1 Whinny call Common Gallinule 2 American Coot 140 Black-necked Stilt 98 American Avocet 72 American Golden-Plover 4 Killdeer 52 Wilson's Phalarope 7 Lesser/Greater Yellowlegs 1 Stilt Sandpiper 14 White-rumped Sandpiper 46 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 peep sp. 30 Black Tern 13 Pied-billed Grebe 14 Eared Grebe 27 Nesting birds in the Crawdad unit Double-crested Cormorant 1 Glossy Ibis 2 Cont birds White-faced Ibis 290 Glossy/White-faced Ibis 3 Black-crowned Night Heron 4 Little Blue Heron 2 Snowy Egret 13 Western Cattle-Egret 12 Great Egret 12 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Swainson's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Western Kingbird 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 2 Loggerhead Shrike 1 Barn Swallow 4 Northern Mockingbird 1 American Robin 1 Lark Sparrow 2 Eastern Meadowlark 4 Western/Eastern Meadowlark 12 Red-winged Blackbird 47 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Common Grackle 22 Great-tailed Grackle 8 Dickcissel 43
