Bird count along the Bosque River Trail June 13, 2026

Weather: Mostly cloudy - patchwork of small cumulus clouds, no wind, Temp ~75 at 7am, humid, river muddy and stagnant, max temp today 95-100 degrees.

Event 1: Two of the first four birds I saw today are not common on the BRT. The first birds I saw when I exited my car were 5 Killdeer in the parking lot. I see Killdeer on the BRT about once every three or four months. The fourth bird I saw was a Green Heron. In the three years I have been seriously observing birds on the BRT, I have seen Green Herons four times. Today I saw a single Green Heron sitting high in a tree along the Bosque.

Event 2: I saw two individual Belted Kingfishers today, but not together. However, I’m pretty sure they are a pair. I saw the first Kingfisher, but he also saw me and bolted upriver. At the same time I heard the chatter of another Kingfisher down river. The down river Kingfisher flew up to where I could see it. It saw me and bolted down river. At the same instant I heard the chatter of the upriver Kingfisher.

Types of birds observed: 25 Individual birds observed: 125

Number of birds‍ ‍Type of birds

~26 House Sparrows

20 Cardinals

~13 Barn Swallows - too fast and mobile to count accurately

7 Starlings

6 Scissortail Flycatchers

5 Killdeer

5 White-winged Doves

5 Mockingbirds

4 Mississippi Kites

4 Bluebirds

4 Robins

3 Mourning Doves

3 Eastern Phoebes

3 Vultures unknown type - too far away and high

2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers

2 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

2 Hawks - unknow types - one seen flying far away, one heard but not seen

2 Belted Kingfishers - a pair

2 Grackles

1 Green Heron

1 Carolina Wren

1 Turkey Vulture

1 Great Blue Heron

1 Chickadee

1 Hummingbird - I think it was a female Ruby Throated hummingbird

1 unknown - it looked like a Phoebe, but it had a pale-yellow belly, maybe a female Great crested Flycatcher