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Palmer, Jeff
Jeff.Palmer@...
Aug 1, 2005 2:35 pm
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Hi, Just got back from an intense couple weeks birding in the deserts and mountains of the Southwest. It was great. Saw 217 species (52 life birds) including:...
foodrev@...
Aug 1, 2005 3:38 pm
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Hi Again, I include the mammals and bugs seen in AZ/CA separately since this is--after all--a bird list. We saw many mammals I cannot remember names of--I'll...
foodrev@...
Aug 1, 2005 4:28 pm
1151
This is the fourth summer I've noticed the absence and decline of several birds that use to inhabit the banks of Pickerel Lake in northeast Day County South...
Skadsen, Dennis - Web...
dennis.skadsen@...
Aug 1, 2005 7:13 pm
1152
Just a note to all ' haveing a great time in Bolivia... about 40 life birds today... many species I didnīt see on my last trip! Will up date you when I...
8/01/05 7:30 a.m. A Ruffed Grouse and a Sharp-shinned Hawk were observed along the Lost Cabin Trail in the Harney Peak/Sylvan Lake trail system, Black Hills...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Aug 1, 2005 11:43 pm
1154
SD birders: Michael Retter just called me from Houston (on his way to Ecuador). His sad news is that Jason Starfire, one of the RMBO guys in the BHNF year,...
foodrev@...
Aug 1, 2005 11:45 pm
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Hi everyone, I've been hiking around in the Ricco Burn (behind Piedmont, Meade County SD. So far, bird activitiy is low, but I'll be sure to let you know when...
Last weekend Jeff & I observed both Lewis's and Red-headed Woodpecker within the Rogers Shack Burn (southern Hills). About 12,000 acres burned there in 2001....
FYI ... From: MARTELL, Mark <MMARTELL@...> Date: Aug 3, 2005 10:30 AM Subject: [mou] FW: Audubon Calls for Emergency listing of Red Knot To: "MOU - Net...
I am representing SDOU on the Comprehensive Wildlife Review Plan Advisory Committee (which means I didn't have input to the draft plan, but I need to make SDOU...
Swanson, David
dlswanso@...
Aug 4, 2005 4:12 pm
1159
This morning, 5 Aug 2005, I saw a pair of Red-breasted Nuthatches at my feeder, the first of the "fall". Earlier in the week I saw an Eurasian Collared Dove...
This is not a bird but it fly's. I had to be in spearfish late yesterday afternoon . When I stopped outside of radioshack there was a little brown myotis...
Todd Jensen
gyrfalcon@...
Aug 6, 2005 11:16 am
1161
I finally found a owl at Sica Hollow State Park. On 7/29/05 an Eastern Screech Owl responded to my owl vocalizations in the Marshall Co part of the park. I...
Ricky D Olson
tatanka40@...
Aug 6, 2005 12:58 pm
1162
We did some extended listening for owls all night on Thursday at Leif Ericson's overnight. Heard no GHO, but did hear a nice Screech Owl calling, plus many...
mick
zerrm@...
Aug 6, 2005 5:03 pm
1163
Other birds are on the move besides shorebirds: This morning we saw two prairie falcons on the Fort Pierre National Grassland. Three common loons were in the...
Doug Backlund
dougback@...
Aug 7, 2005 2:50 am
1164
Visiting friends out east of HWY 79, on Lower Spring Creek Rd last pm. Beautiful view of male N. Harrier landing on fence post close to road, many W. ...
I observed the same behavior between sapsuckers and hummingbirds several years ago in Sibley State Park, Minnesota, accompanied by a lot of vocalization. ... ...
Tom Parliman
tparliman@...
Aug 8, 2005 1:01 pm
1166
3 rufous hummingbirds this morning, at my home in Meade County. --anna...
Last call ... If you have not yet entered your Summer Season sightings into the online database please do so as soon as possible. The Summer Season Report will...
Palmer, Jeff
Jeff.Palmer@...
Aug 8, 2005 3:11 pm
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I'm not a silversmith, but I did see the beginnings of "sign" in the Ricco burn today (Meade County, behind Piedmont). (Thanks to Ricky Olson for this "sign"...
Common Nighthawks have been putting on fantastic aerial shows over large meadows near Custer. Dozens can be seen in one view ripping through the sky . Reminds...
No less than 4 different feeders/yards around Sturgis area that have at least 2 hummers each. The ones I got looks at in 3 locations appear to be rufous. ...
Today the Screech Owl visited us, in person. He spent the day at the top inside the large eating shelter at Leif Ericson. Some peeps have showed up now that...
mick
zerrm@...
Aug 11, 2005 4:31 am
1172
Migration seems to be starting, I am seeing large numbers of Mourning Doves, Eastern Kingbirds & Western Kingbirds. Prairie Falcons have showed back up in the...
Ricky D Olson
tatanka40@...
Aug 11, 2005 12:32 pm
1173
I observed a winter adult Laughing Gull this morning. It was on a sandbar below Oahe Marina. It was in a flock of Franklins Gulls, I estimated the flock at...
Ricky D Olson
tatanka40@...
Aug 12, 2005 4:11 pm
1174
I've been in Tripp County the last few days doing more American burying beetle work. There are two trumpeter swans at Dog Ear Lake and vicinity. The site where...
Doug Backlund
dougback@...
Aug 13, 2005 1:48 am
1175
Some of the SFBC folks went to the Grass Lake area just west of Sioux Falls Saturday morning and found interesting birding. Forty species were seen, some of...
mick
zerrm@...
Aug 13, 2005 7:23 pm
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Sorry about the typo on the SFBC address it is www.leifericson.org/sfbc Mick...
mick
zerrm@...
Aug 13, 2005 8:16 pm
1177
Sorry this is late but been out of town a few days. Last Mon. went up to see the Cement fire damage on Moskee Rd. Not too bad on Moskee, but the survey on...
