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Yesterday at Dailey Lake south of Livingston. 0 people except me 8 American Avocets 18 Eared Grebe 1 Western Grebe 2 Common Loons 30 Red-breasted Mergansers ...
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the MOB-Montana group: Spring is slowly approaching us and the April poll has 9 entrants most of which...
4/30/09 Great Falls birding 1. The McCown¹s Longspur seem to have moved on. 2. West Bank Park found a small group of Marbled Godwits, 5 Least Sandpipers out...
Nate, An article in the Sept/Oct Birding discusses some jizz traits to help in identifying dowitchers. They are the loral angle, head shape and body profile....
Had a very satisfying tour of a few local ponds around Bozeman early this morning. At DAVIS LANE POND: Eared Grebe - 2 Western Grebe - 2 Red-necked Grebe - 2 ...
It was just about 30 species in 30 minutes yesterday along West Bank Park in Great Falls. I was able to peek quickly at the population at 4:30 and a leisurely...
MOB-sters: 45 American Avocets yesterday along the lakeshore at Breezy Point. Today, finally, another swallow species in the flocks: one Barn Swallow among the...
MOB, Up for a chase this weekend? A male Baikal Teal is being seen northeast of Calgary. http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/ALBR.html Good luck, Mike...
It has been an interesting past few days with all the snow we have. Yesterday and this morning I had meadowlarks at the feeder eating sunflowers. Robins were...
Jim, You really didn't mean it was a Long-billed Curlew did you? I saw the bird in the morning close up, before Nate photographed it and it was definitely a...
Mobsters, We enjoyed our first of the year Cassin's finch- a brightly colored male- and a Cassin's vireo about our house this morning. Cheers, Jim Rogers Jette...
Woops-I meant Long-billed Dowitcher. I had been thinking about L-b Curlews. Thanks. Jim ... From: Gary Swant To: MOB-Montana@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May...
Mobsters Today brought three new species for the year to Ft. Peck. A Veery was in the yard first thing this morning and a Piping Plover was on the sandbar east...
Yes I did get out to Freezout. Thanks for my neighbor's son and his tractor. Snow and more snow was at Freezout today, some areas were just to deep in drifts...
Saw my FOY western kingbird on Ambrose Cr. Rd. near Stevensville. The Lee Metcalf Refuge has alot of the same waterbird migrants being reported elsewhere:...
Birders, Not a lot of bird activity in the valley today. Shore bird numbers were few. I saw one Solitary Sandpiper and one Killdeer. I did find a Leucistic...
A quick check yesterday at the pond on Heeb Road yielded a lone female Wilson's Phalarope, along with one Greater Yellowlegs and one Lesser Yellowlegs. Lou Ann...
My Sanders County 2009 numbers in error. Excluding 5 "alien" species (starling; rock, Eurasian doves, house sparrow, gray partridge), I've seen 109 species...
Hi Mobsters John Parker, Mark Donahue and I enjoyed a stellar day around the lakes and ponds of Latilong 38 on May Day. The weather was perfect and we tallied...
Took a 3 hour drive with a friend and found lots of Pheasant, Sharp-tailed Grouse, and Gray Partridge along the way. We were going after Short-eared Owls and...
Hi All, I was at Giant Springs this morning and saw many of the birds that have been reported, Common Loons, Horned Grebes, Audubon & Myrtle Yellow-rumped...
Montana Birders, Its just starting to be possible to get onto some of the roads on Freezout, but most of the viewing is to be done along Highway 89. I saw the...
Barbara and I found 12 Greater White-fronted Geese several hours ago on Egan Slough Rd. just after it goes South down over the hill and flattens out. They were...
Well Richard and myself had a great time birding Giant Springs, the weather was very nice, blue skies and the sun, a strange object in the sky. Richard and I...
I forgot to post Friday about the Say's Phoebe I found at Giant Springs. It was hawking over the fish pond and raceways. It is new one for Giant springs as far...
Yesterday, May 2nd, we saw our first two groups of this year's goslings following their mothers and swimming around in the pond behind Ninepipes Lodge a few...
Hi all, We are once again blessed to have at least one pair and maybe 2 of Western Bluebirds mating at our home. We had placed a whole bunch of Bluebird...
4 cold miserable days, 2' of heavy wet snow kept me filling the feeders for mostly juncos, chickadees, red and white breasted nuthatches, and house finches....
meal worms! what a great idea, especially because we still have several inches of snow on the ground. do you have a special feeding area for the worms? do...
... I have placed 3 meal worm feeder around my yard. They are at least 3 feet to 6 feet off the ground. Live worms. They seem to do OK overnight even in the...