How can I post a bird sighting on okbirds?
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Cathy chernausek
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM Louis Truex <ml2x1954...> wrote:
> Hello Everyone, Went to HF looking for nesting activity. Interesting
> results. Lou Truex Tillman - Hackberry Flat Survey, Tillman, Oklahoma,
> US Jun 4, 2025 11: 14 AM - 3: 26 PM Protocol: Traveling 17. 221 mile(s) 47
> species (+2 other taxa)
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> Hello Everyone,
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> Went to HF looking for nesting activity. Interesting results.
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> Lou Truex
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> Tillman - Hackberry Flat Survey, Tillman, Oklahoma, US
> Jun 4, 2025 11:14 AM - 3:26 PM
> Protocol: Traveling
> 17.221 mile(s)
> 47 species (+2 other taxa)
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> Blue-winged Teal 160 1 On nest. 95% of the BWTE seen were males.
> Northern Shoveler 44 2 On nest. Don't remember having this
> species nest at HF before.
> Gadwall 2
> Mallard 9
> Northern Pintail 4
> Green-winged Teal 3 Pic tba Cont birds
> Redhead 4
> Ruddy Duck 38 3 on nest
> Northern Bobwhite 2
> Mourning Dove 33
> Common Nighthawk 8
> King Rail 1
> Common Gallinule 1
> American Coot 56 23 on nest
> Black-necked Stilt 78 27 on nest
> American Avocet 59 14 on nests
> Killdeer 36
> Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Barring down flanks and on neck.
> Wilson's Phalarope 5
> Stilt Sandpiper 2 D-curved bills, yellow-green legs with no belly
> spots or blacking unlike Dunlins. The blacking was in the form of barring
> on the flanks and across the belly.
> White-rumped Sandpiper 54
> Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
> shorebird sp. 25
> Black Tern 2
> Pied-billed Grebe 12 5 on nest
> Eared Grebe 27 18 On nest
> Glossy Ibis 1 Continuing bird. Correct leg coloration pattern of
> gray-red-gray with blue facial outline and gray facial skin
> White-faced Ibis 265 26 On nest. One berm about 100 yards long
> was shoulder to shoulder WFIB. It seemed they were trying to start a
> nesting process but I've not seen them as open as they were on that berm.
> Last time they nested at HF, it was in tall grass.
> Snowy Egret 3
> Western Cattle-Egret 8
> Great Egret 12
> Great Blue Heron 1
> Turkey Vulture 1
> Bald Eagle 2 Pics TBA
> Swainson's Hawk 1
> Red-tailed Hawk 1
> Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 2
> Loggerhead Shrike 1
> Horned Lark 2
> Barn Swallow 4
> Cliff Swallow 2
> Northern Mockingbird 2
> Lark Sparrow 2
> Eastern Meadowlark 13
> Western/Eastern Meadowlark 10
> Red-winged Blackbird 96 Nesting in every wet unit.
> Common Grackle 13
> Great-tailed Grackle 2
> Dickcissel 46
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