On Sunday February 10 I spent another nice morning birding the Colorado River Park. On this occasion I found 36 species. The highlight being a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. I was also treated to two Osprey that flew past my Observation post.

Following is a partial list of the birds I saw:

Location: Colorado River Park
Observation date: 2/10/08

Double-crested Cormorant 5
Great Blue Heron 1
Snowy Egret 1
Black Vulture 7
Turkey Vulture 11
Osprey 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Crested Caracara 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Eastern Phoebe 3
White-eyed Vireo 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 6
Field Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 1
Lincoln's Sparrow 18
White-throated Sparrow 1
Eastern Meadowlark 24

Welcome to the Austin Colony Nature Sightings Blog Spot

This blog is to allow me a forum to report my bird and nature sightings from my neighborhood in eastern Travis County of Texas.

It was inspired by a similar effort by another birder Mikael Behrens. Mikael does a bird walk in a northwest Austin neighborhood that is in Williamson County.

http://birdingonbroadmeade.blogspot.com/

My neighborhood has a park that borders the Colorado River. My thinking is to bird this park on a regular basis to monitor the nature activities along this section of river.

On January 26 I spent some time in that park and collected 34 species of birds. The highlight birds from that morning were a Vermillion Flycatcher and Barred Owl.

A partial list of birds follows:

Location: Colorado River Park
Observation date: 1/26/08

American White Pelican 12
Double-crested Cormorant 7
Great Blue Heron 2
American Coot 24
Barred Owl 2
Belted Kingfisher 2
Eastern Phoebe 3
Vermilion Flycatcher 1
American Pipit 15
Cedar Waxwing 32
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Savannah Sparrow 2
Lincoln's Sparrow 6