<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Texas Birds</title><link>http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds</link><description>Bird watchers at Texas</description><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1191248</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 16:13:01 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] 1999-2000 Great Kiskadee record at Hagerman N.W.R.</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the fall and winter of 1999-2000 there was a Great Kiskadee reported at Hagerman N.W.R., in north Texas. At that time I was still writing the North American Birds report for</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1190903</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 07:14:43 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] unsubscribe</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1190477</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:37:35 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds]</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;Brush Freeman&lt;br /&gt;361-655-7641&lt;br /&gt;http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;Finca de los Alacranes., Utley,Texas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEXBIRDS help file and Texas birding links at: http://moonmountaingroup.com/texbirds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1189026</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:48:01 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Birds at Edinburg Scenic wetlands</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello fellow birders! Great day today at EWBC, we had a good warbler&lt;br /&gt;morning. Warblers sighted were:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chestnut sided warbler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blackburnian Warbler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yellow warbler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tennessee warbler&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other birds seen today were:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American red start&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yellow-billed cuckoo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orchard Oriole (male and female)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baltimore</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1188931</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:28:28 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Edwards Co.</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 species of vireos this morning, 6 resident.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;Brush Freeman&lt;br /&gt;361-655-7641&lt;br /&gt;http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;Finca de los Alacranes., Utley,Texas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEXBIRDS help file and Texas birding links at: http://moonmountaingroup.com/texbirds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1188820</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:56:49 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] May 16th deadline: Free event listing in Texas Parks and         Wildlife Magazine calendar</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does your organization have a community or regional birding event that&lt;br /&gt;you'd like to promote for free in the Migration Calendar published in&lt;br /&gt;Texas Parks &amp;amp; Wildlife magazine's August issue?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Texas Parks and Wildlife</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1188783</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:04:45 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Vireos/Warblers at Goliad State Park on Sunday</title><description>I just got back to Lubbock - from a long trip down to t&lt;br /&gt;Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greetings All:&lt;br /&gt;
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I just got back to Lubbock - from a long trip down to the TOS meeting, the TOS</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1188165</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:59:56 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Hummers in Kingsland</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know if its the north wind or the rainy weather but the hummers are&lt;br /&gt;really in evidence today. I have counted about 20 at times today. There seem&lt;br /&gt;to still be a</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1187408</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:52:26 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Red-shafted Flicker</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saturday afternoon I heard a distinctly different call in our NW Houston&lt;br /&gt;backyard. While trying to process in my head my wife asked me &amp;quot;what is&lt;br /&gt;that&amp;quot; always a sure sign that a song</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1187117</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:33:02 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Signing up for the new server</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is still a trickle of messages going through the old server. If&lt;br /&gt;you have not done so yet please go to&lt;br /&gt;http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the box labeled &amp;quot;User Options:</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1186638</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 21:22:43 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Surf Scoters</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was a scoter week.  I found a Surf Scoter in a puddle by the side of the&lt;br /&gt;highway on Bolivar on Thursday.  It was able to swim and walk, but</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1186267</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 15:45:24 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Good Birds Tarrant Co.</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dell and I birded Tarrant Co. yesterday and today. Highlights as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Locations:  &lt;br /&gt;Kelly Park - Arlington  KP&lt;br /&gt;River Legacy Park - Arlington RLP&lt;br /&gt;Village Creek Drying Beds - VCBD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eared  Grebe -</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1185648</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 21:54:08 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Estero Llano Grande SP WBC (LTC 054), May 5, 2012</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  Howdy Texbirders,&lt;br /&gt; What a beautiful morning to be at Estero Llano Grande SP/WBC with just a slight breeze and comfortable temperature and lots of good birds</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1184744</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 00:06:45 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Skeen Playa, Lynn Co. 05/04/2012</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were incredible numbers of Avocets (500), Wilson's Phalaropes&lt;br /&gt;(600), and Long-billed Dowitchers (750) at the Skeen Playa this&lt;br /&gt;evening.  Five Neotropic Cormorants, a Least Bittern, at least 4&lt;br /&gt;Short-billed Dowitchers, and a Marbled</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1184488</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 18:50:46 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Hutton's Vireo continues St. Edward's Park Austin 5/4/12</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The HUTTON'S VIREO at St. Edward's Park continues. Today he was singing up&lt;br /&gt;a storm in the drainage that runs north into Bull Creek. Also in this&lt;br /&gt;drainage today was at least one singing</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1183562</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:48:48 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Uvalde co. rufous-capped warbler yes 2 of them</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this evening (thursday) the rufous-capped warbler was still present and singing at chalk bluff&lt;br /&gt;in Uvalde co., a second bird was singing only a hundred yards or so downstream but was not&lt;br /&gt;visible...also present</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1183311</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 16:57:05 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Thursday morning birding at Hagerman NWR</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was a great day of birding at the refuge.&lt;br /&gt;We finished the day with a total of 76 species.&lt;br /&gt;Standouts were the male Lazuli Bunting, the 7 Buff-breasted Sandpipers, the Whimbrel, 25 Upland</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1183091</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:07:13 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Resaca de la Palma State Park - Water Levels plus Least         Bittern, Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Groove-billed Ani</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Water has been flowing into the resaca.  While Ebony deck resaca was dry a&lt;br /&gt;few days ago, the water level is now over three feet.  As water continues&lt;br /&gt;to move throughout the</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1182121</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:46:44 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] rice u birds</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hi there,&lt;br /&gt;we finally had a decent (by urban standards) migrant day at Rice University&lt;br /&gt;today.&lt;br /&gt;birds today included&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Cattle Egrets&lt;br /&gt;1 Green Heron&lt;br /&gt;1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo&lt;br /&gt;1 Eastern Wood-Pewee&lt;br /&gt;1 Acadian Flycatcher&lt;br /&gt;1 Traill's type flycatcher&lt;br /&gt;2 Tennessee Warbler&lt;br /&gt;1 American</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1182032</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:24:14 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] How do I post of the new Texbirds?</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How do I post on the new Texbirds?  I've already joined but I see no way to&lt;br /&gt;post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan Jones, Weslaco&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEXBIRDS help file and Texas birding links at: http://moonmountaingroup.com/texbirds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1181507</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 21:37:55 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Lafitte's Cove Black-throated Blue,         Blackpoll and Cape May Warblers 5/1/12</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry this is so late, but here it is. I spent the morning in Texas City&lt;br /&gt;Prairie preserve planting native grasses and forbes but on the way out of the&lt;br /&gt; field suddenly there</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1181457</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:46:33 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Screech Owl Hatch Rates</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Thursday I received and update from someone here in Austin with a nest&lt;br /&gt;box with a camera in it and the Screech Owls that had used the box. The pair&lt;br /&gt;laid 5 eggs</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1181204</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:50:34 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Two Lifers today</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this one is nifty...http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/  Never would&lt;br /&gt;have expected to see this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;Brush Freeman&lt;br /&gt;361-655-7641&lt;br /&gt;http://texasnaturenotes.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;Finca de los Alacranes., Utley,Texas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEXBIRDS help file and Texas birding links at: http://moonmountaingroup.com/texbirds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1181173</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:17:29 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Painted buntings at EWBC</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Birders!  2 male Painted buntings seen at our South Pond Trial at&lt;br /&gt;Edinburg World Birding Center! Other birds seen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fulvous Whistling duck -3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Green kingfisher  - 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yellow warbler - 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great Crested Flycatcher</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1181108</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:12:37 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Black-throated Blue Warbler female @ Valley Nature Center         05/01/2012</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Everyone! Just wanted to post on a Black-throated Blue warbler female&lt;br /&gt;this was @ 2:45 pm. I was accompanied by Brush Freeman who got some photos&lt;br /&gt;of the bird which I will post</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1181100</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:06:04 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] 80 pictures of our Texas trip (April 10th to 20th)</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A VERY great trip in Texas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 days... 237 species!!! (A day of 137 species!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I put 80 pictures of this trip at:&lt;br /&gt;http://www.pitpitpit.com/photos/2012_texas/index.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to thanks VERY MUCH every Texbirders who help me with</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1181085</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:54:55 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] FOS Common Nighthawk</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, it is almost summer--the night hawks have arrived in Wichita Co. as&lt;br /&gt;of this morning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;Penny Miller&lt;br /&gt;Wichita Falls, TX&lt;br /&gt;http://charmoffinches.blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEXBIRDS help file and Texas birding links at: http://moonmountaingroup.com/texbirds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180948</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:14:21 -0500</pubDate><title>Re: [texbirds] parks with bird blinds</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some parks you might want to try...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) Kreutzberg Canyon Natural Area (Operated by the Kendall County&lt;br /&gt;Partnership for Parks) has three blinds.   The park is located just north of&lt;br /&gt;Boerne Texas along</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180786</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:02:32 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Raptor kettle - Sunset Valley/Austin</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was a kettle of raptors traveling over Sunset Valley about 9:15 a.m. today.  Three painted buntings were singing on the edge of the field behind City Hall.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEXBIRDS help</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180764</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 09:45:09 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] High Island Bird News April 30</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;30 APRIL 2012&lt;br /&gt;When we woke up this morning, we were expecting a&lt;br /&gt;very slow walk around HAS Boy Scout Woods. Surely it would be similar to&lt;br /&gt;the last couple days - absolutely no migrants</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180437</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:30:16 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Birding ANWR and Flooded Fields near Anahuac and Winnie         4/30/12</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spent just a few minutes at the Anahuac NWR early this morning mostly&lt;br /&gt;looking for the Bronze Cowbirds we saw this last weekend. I never found  them&lt;br /&gt;There were still a good</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180375</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:32:41 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Upper Texas Coast Birding This Weekend and Today</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear all,&lt;br /&gt;
Martin and I went to Sabine Woods, Anuhuac, High Island and the rice fields near Winnie. Despite slow migrant conditions, I wanted to share a little info. &lt;br /&gt;
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The flooded rice fields</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180355</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:06:16 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Cape May Warblers  South Padre Island</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spent most of the day at the convention center on South Padre Island. The star or should I say stars of the show were 2 beautiful male Cape May Warblers.Other warblers included</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180345</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:02:14 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Migrants, Barton Creek, Austin 4/30</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shortly after arriving home from High Island I was happy to see migration&lt;br /&gt;has picked up here in Austin. 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Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;im looking for parks with bird blinds, that are in central or south central texas.  &lt;br /&gt;
i know perdenales park has two great blinds and hornsby bend also..&lt;br /&gt;
i thought i read about some</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180216</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:54:07 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] is it me?</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server. Please start sending your posts to (email address filtered)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm only getting one copy of the texbirds posts and I did try to subscribe&lt;br /&gt;to texbirds at free lists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also responded to the request for a response. Any tips?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pat Wight&lt;br /&gt;Houston today&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEXBIRDS help</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180167</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:21:32 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Birding Bolivar on Saturday</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Galveston County International Migratory Bird Day count is this Saturday and I need a couple of people who would be willing to bird the Bolivar Peninsula from the ferry to Yacht Basin Rd. Let me know if you would like</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180175</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:33:50 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Blanco State Park</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 members of Travis Audubon led by Terry Banks and Shirley Winslow&lt;br /&gt;visited the park today and spent an enjoyable morning birding the west area&lt;br /&gt;of the park on both sides of the river, using the road crossing the river&lt;br /&gt;as the division between</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180038</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:27:55 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Dual purpose post - Harris's Hawks in Lubbock</title><description>Hopefully this gets through to texbirds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the l&lt;br /&gt;Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greetings All:&lt;br /&gt;
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Hopefully this gets through to texbirds.&lt;br /&gt;
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For the last several years a pair of Harris's Hawks have been fruitful and multiplied at the TTU Rangeland.  Each year - one pair and a small horde</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1180001</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:53:49 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Breeding Bird Survey vacancy</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Hawley route in Jones County near Abilene is vacant if anybody want to conduct this Breeding Bird Survey.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;BREEDING BIRD SURVEY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;This is my annual  request for volunteer sign-up to conduct roadside breeding bird surveys (BBS) in</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1179939</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:53:28 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] FOS Broad-tailed Hummingbird, Marathon,         Brewster Co. 30 April</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just heard a male Broad-tailed Hummingbird wing-trill his way by me, here&lt;br /&gt;in town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Matt York&lt;br /&gt;Marathon&lt;br /&gt;Brewster Co.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;Sent from my Laptop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://bigbendtx.blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEXBIRDS help file and Texas birding links at: http://moonmountaingroup.com/texbirds&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1179928</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:46:25 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] NEXRAD radar observations of migrating birds in the western         Gulf coast region; 4/30</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upper winds have slackened a bit to just above 20 kt. at the two western&lt;br /&gt;stations to the teens at New Orleans. According to reports from the field a&lt;br /&gt;fair variety of migrants (no exceptionally large numbers except more&lt;br /&gt;Bobolinks than usual on the</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1179891</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:06:20 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Migrants in Washington County- 4/30</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Texbirders,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This morning there was a little flurry of migrant activity in my Chappell Hill yard. Migrant activity has been very low lately with strong south winds, but a low cloud ceiling and light winds today has dropped some birds down. About</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1179863</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:34:53 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Hermit Warbler-Negative, Post Park, AM of 30 April ,         Colima note.</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; No Hermit Warbler seen at Post this morning. Oh well. There was a female&lt;br /&gt;Summer Tanager building a nest in the willow that Heidi had seen the&lt;br /&gt;warbler in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A singing Yellow Warbler, singing Summer Tanagers(many SUTA down there),&lt;br /&gt;and singing Orchard Orioles were</description></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Texas_Birds/1179721</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:05:48 -0500</pubDate><title>[texbirds] Hooded Oriole at Chalk Bluff Park</title><description>Please go to http://www.freelists.org/list/texbirds and subscribe to the new server&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We saw the rufous-capped warbler at Chalk Bluff Park yesterday, Sunday,&lt;br /&gt;April 29, at approximately 9:30 AM on a fairly windy day. 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I add in the eBird record that the&lt;br /&gt;location only indicates the county, not the location of</description></item></channel></rss>
