Bird count along the Bosque River trail June 9, 2026

Weather: Clear, light wind, Temp at 7:00am - 75, high temp today ~94.

Experience 1: I saw a Starling with just one leg. It seemed to cope ok with a missing leg. It hopped energetically along the ground, and eventually flew off.

Experience 2: I watched a Western Kingbird drive first a Bluejay, and then a cardinal away from a nest. The nest is in the big tree in the middle of the large hayfield. This is the tree that I sometimes see a Summer Tanager perching on and singing from in the morning.

Identified today: 23 Species 144 individual birds

Number of birds Type of bird

~34 Barn Swallows

21 Sparrows - type unknown - most are probably house sparrows

19 Cardinals

9 Robins

8 Starlings - including the one leg Starling

6 Bluebirds

5 Western Kingbirds

3 Mockingbirds

3 Black Belly Whistling Ducks - one pair flying - one loner flying

2 Downy Woodpeckers

2 Ducks - type unidentified - wild - flying

2 White-winged Doves

2 Eastern Phoebes

2 Turkey Vultures

2 Mississippi Kites

2 Bluejays

1 Summer Tanager

1 Great Blue Heron - flying

1 Red Bellied Woodpecker

1 Hummingbird - type unknown

1 Carolina Wren

1 Belted Kingfisher

A person with bird identification software told me the app kept reporting hearing White-eyed Vireos. I didn’t see any.