Birders,

The Sioux Falls Bird Club went out this morning to Touch the Sky Prairie and
Blue Mounds State Park (both near Luverne MN, just across the SD border) to look
for nesting grassland birds. A few of the common grassland birds were found but
our search for the resident Blue Grosbeaks at Blue Mounds proved futile. The
highlight for this morning was a side-track on the way home to a gravel quarry
near Luverne and seeing 6 species of Shorebirds.(Thanks to Todd Jensen who
always brings his scope) The Birds found this morning are listed below.

Mark Schmidtbauer
SFBC



Canada Goose
Ring-necked Pheasant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Coopers or Sharp-shinned Hawk?
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Black Tern
Rock Pigeon(actually found on rocky ledges at Blue Mounds instead of a farmyard)
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
American Crow
House Wren
American Robin
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
Common Yellowthroat
Indigo Bunting
Field Sparrow
Clay-colored Sparrow (heard)
Savannah Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Bobolink
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow