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Eighteen members of a bird club joined forces at Calaveras Lake on Sunday, Ocotber 30, 2011, for a morning of beautiful Fall birding weather. Highlights were a Sedge Wren, 2 Grasshopper Sparrows and a LeConte's Sparrow.
Other species and the number seen include:
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 14
Gadwall 3
Blue-winged Teal 22
Northern Shoveler 12
Northern Pintail 4
Redhead 4
Ruddy Duck 165
Pied-billed Grebe 35
Neotropic Cormorant 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1200
American White Pelican 35
Great blue Heron 8
Tricolored Heron 2
Cattle Egret 2
Black-crowned Night-Heron 10
White-faced Ibis 1
Black Vulture 21
Turkey Vulture 6
Osprey 3
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Crested Caracara 4
American Kestrel 12
Common Gallinule 4
American Coot 200
Killdeer 1
American Avocet 8
Ring-billed Gull 6
Forster's Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 24
Mourning Dove 2
Common Ground-Dove 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3
Eastern Phoebe 5
Loggerhead Shrike 1
Cave Swallow 155
Bewick's Wren 2
House Wren 1
Sedge Wren 1
Marsh Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Northern Mockingbird 10
Orange-crowned Warbler 10
Common Yellowthroat 12
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Green-tailed Towhee 1
Field Sparrow 1
Vesper Sparrow 12
Lark Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 15
Grasshopper Sparrow 2
Le Conte's Sparrow 1
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow 6
Northern Cardinal 4
Pyrrhuloxia 2
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 140
Yellow-headed Blackbird 7
Great-tailed Grackle 75
House Finch 12
Brawny Cal and friends give fishing tips and reports from Braunig and Calaveras Lakes in Bexar County, Texas in Brawny Cal's Fishing Report.