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Birds showing up in unexpected places
Oklahoma Mesonet reported 0.81 inches of rain for the past weekly period in Stillwater.
Payne County rare birds for the same time include Hooded Warbler (heard only) at Couch Park, Western Palm Warbler at Sanborn Lake, Neotropic Cormorant and Wood Thrush at Boomer Lake, Willow Flycatcher on 68th Street between Hackelman and Range Roads, Song Sparrow on 80th Street between Pleasant Valley and Hackelman, and Eastern Towhee on 92nd between Meridian and Pleasant Valley.
An estimated 608,700 birds crossed Payne County last night between Monday, April 28, 2025 at 2020 hours and Tuesday April 29, 2025 at 0630 hours. Peak migration traffic was an estimated 143,100 birds in flight (high) at an altitude of 2,100 feet from the north at a speed of 41 mph.
Expected nocturnal migrants were Great Crested Flycatcher, Swainson’s Thrush, Baltimore and Orchard Orioles, Yellow-rumped, Nashville, and Yellow Warblers, Dickcissel, Indigo Bunting, Eastern and Western Kingbirds, Summer Tanager, Blue-winged Teal, and White-throated Sparrow.
Current and predicted vagrancy conditions for 04-2425 are all high with current vagrancy conditions at 1.2, current magnetic field distortion at 1.4, and current solar activity conditions at 1.8. These numbers are expected to stay the same over the next two weeks.
Species richness trends are increasing with numbers moving in a northerly direction, over High Island.
Species demographic trends show Western Tanager rising with Field Sparrow on the downhill slide.
Nationwide rare/vagrant birds are still showing Texas in the lead with Brown Jay, Yellow-headed Caracara, Asian
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(Amur) Stonechat, and Cattle Tyrant.
Texas also shines with a pair of Military Macaws seen near Big Bend. This is a first record for the area at large. They are from Mexico and are welcomed in our fair country.
Newfoundland witnessed several European Golden-Plovers with Asian Oystercatcher. Greater Sand-Plover arrived, which is out of its central Asian element.
Ontario shared Blue Grosbeak, Rock Wren, AND Mountain Bluebird, while Quebec came up with Fish Crow and Black-billed Magpie.
Michigan counted Chuck-Will’s Widow, Ruff, Western Grebe, and Smith’s Longspurs, as South Dakota counted off Great Gray Owl. Additionally, Great Lakes region discovered three Mountain Bluebirds.
North Carolina tagged Gray Kingbird and Fulvous Whistling- Duck, as South Carolina had its own Fulvous Whistling- Duck.
Florida ticked Bahama Mockingbird, as Alabama had Cassin’s Kingbird. California tagged Little Stint.
Boomer Lake added Canada Goose, Eastern Phoebe, Purple Martin, European Starling, American Robin, House Sparrow, Common Grackle, Mallard, Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers, Franklin’s Gull, Forster’s Tern, Blue Jay, Cliff Swallow, Northern Bobwhite, Mourning Dove, Chimney Swift, American Coot, Killdeer, Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Red-bellied and Downy Woodpeckers, Great Crested and Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, White-eyed, Bell’s, and Warbling Vireos, American and Fish Crows, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Purple Martin, Barn and Cliff Swallows, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Carolina Wren, Brown Thrasher, Northern Mockingbird, Eastern Bluebird, Swainson’s Thrush, Cedar Waxwing, House Finch, Chipping, Clay-colored, Lark, White-crowned, Harris’s, and Lincoln’s Sparrows, Orchard and Baltimore Orioles, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Common Grackle, Orange-crowned, Nashville, Yellow-rumped, and Yellow Warblers, Northern Cardinal, Indigo Bunting, and Dickcissel!
Happy birding! Deb Hirt is a wild bird rehabilitator and photographer living in Stillwater.
A Military Macaw.
CHARLES PLUTA FROM AUGUSTA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
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