Day of Big Sit!

The day went well. We got about the same number of species we get for every Big Sit. Somehow, maybe because we had more participants than usual, we didn't manage to get everyone together at the same time for a group photo. 

The parking area was full all day and I got a photo of that.

I was too tired to blog last night. No rare or exciting birds yesterday, it's still a bit early in migration. Had a Central Texas Whipsnake, which got mobbed by the birds.

And someone found a dead baby javelina on one of the paths. Didn't look to be newborn. Only cause of death I could think of was in a scramble to avoid birders an adult javelina accidentally stepped on it, but I could find no visible injury on it.

Of the numerous lovely birds we saw, a male Western Tanager stands out. It spent hours cleaning the mulberries off a little volunteer mulberry tree.

We saw Green-tailed Towhees constantly but only counted three because that's the most we saw at one time. (I only got a photo showing two.)

Everyone had a good time, including numerous visiting birders that weren't part of the Big Sit!