Today was a perfect, beautiful day for a walk in the woods, so Brenda and I met our neighbors, Cinta Burgos and David Ring, at Baker Sanctuary. We enjoyed glorious spring weather and hiked a little over two miles on the north end of the Sanctuary. We saw and heard 14 bird species, including golden-cheeked warblers. All four of us got good looks at one GCW male singing from the top of an old cedar snag.
Travis Audubon Society bought the original 94 acres of Baker Sanctuary in 1966 to be a golden-cheeked warbler preserve, and the Sanctuary is now 715 acres. This is the first preserve set aside anywhere in the world specifically to protect the GCW. Baker Sanctuary is now part of the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve, which is about 33,000 acres in western Travis County.
Heller's Marbleseed (Lithospermum helleri). David Ring & Cinta Burgos. Little Indian Breadroot (Pediomelum hypogaeum).
Our bird list for the morning:
Mourning DoveOn the original 94 acres of the Baker Sanctuary, which is now 715 acres. The 94 acres was bought by Travis Audubon Society in 1966 to be a Golden-cheeked Warbler preserve, and is the first area set aside specifically to protect the GCW. Baker Sanctuary is now part of the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve.
And our friends, Cinta Burgos and David Ring, enjoying being in the golden-cheeked warbler habitat.
Flowers about 1.5 inches diameter. Prickles are only slightly curved or nearly straight. Need to check pubescence on underside of leaflets.
Rubus oklahomus has "leaflets densely to sparsely soft-pubescent beneath," while R. trivialis has "leaflets glabrous beneath or with pubsecence on along the main veins" (Diggs et al. 1999; Flora of north central Texas, p.959).
White-eyed vireo sings twice in this recording. Also in the recording are black-crested titmouse and northern cardinal.
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