ESTESBOG

 

It was an average birding week at the height of breeding season. It will be a week or two yet before the first fall migrants and post-breeding dispersal juveniles show up from other areas. It continues to rain almost every day – something we haven’t seen in these parts for a number of years. Prairie playas that have been dry for a decade or more are now full of water. It should make for a great shorebird migration.

 

Mallard

Blue-winged teal

Green-winged teal

Northern pintail

Redhead

Northern bobwhite

American white pelican

Double-crested cormorant

Great blue heron

Black-crowned night-heron

Turkey vulture

Swainson’s hawk

Red-tailed hawk

Ferruginous hawk

Northern harrier

American kestrel

American coot

Killdeer

Rock pigeon

Eurasian collared-dove

Mourning dove

Common nighthawk

Chimney swift

Downy woodpecker

Northern flicker

Western wood-pewee

Say’s phoebe

Western kingbird

Eastern kingbird

Blue jay

Black-billed magpie

Horned lark

Northern rough-winged swallow

Bank swallow

Cliff swallow

Barn swallow

House wren

American robin

Northern mockingbird

Brown thrasher

European starling

Cedar waxwing

Yellow warbler

Common yellowthroat

Cassin’s sparrow

Brewer’s sparrow

Lark sparrow

Lark bunting

Song sparrow

Black-headed grosbeak

Blue grosbeak

Red-winged blackbird

Yellow-headed blackbird

Western meadowlark

Common grackle

Great-tailed grackle

Brown-headed cowbird

Orchard oriole

Bullock’s oriole

House finch

House sparrow

MAMMALS

Thirteen-lined ground squirrel

Black-tailed prairie dog

Eastern cottontail

Desert cottontail

Raccoon

Mule deer

Pronghorn

 HERPTILES

 Plains spadefoot (toad)

Woodhouse’s toad