Saw about three dozen of them yesterday along Lame Johnny Creek just east of Custer State Park in Custer Co. Quite the raucous bunch amongst the trees in the...
Clawges, Rick M.
Rick.Clawges@...
Feb 2, 2006 2:46 pm
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This afternoon at McNenny fish hatchery in Lawrence County I saw one marsh wren and one Virginia rail. I also saw what appeared to be a dead great horned owl...
Elizabeth Krueger
ekrueger@...
Feb 3, 2006 12:49 am
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Not much going on here. Some migrant geese are already arriving, I saw a few Snow, Greater White-front & Ross's Geese this week. Sharing is half the fun of...
The Northern Hills Bird Club (NHBC) will conduct a half-day field trip in the Rapid City area on Saturday, February 11. Participants will meet at the west side...
Saturday, sunny and cold. A walk through Leif Ericson Camp found the following birds: 4 Mallards, Red-Tailed Hawk, Northern Shrike, Chickadees, Juncos,...
mick
zerrm@...
Feb 5, 2006 3:17 am
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I found 2 Canada Geese with Orangish Undersides in a large flock yesterday. Here is a link to the pictures, any ideas on reasons of orangish undserside?? ...
If they had reddish undersides, they could have been in the Wisconsin Cranberry bogs. When I lived in Grand Forks County, ND, we would see tundra swans that...
Not unusual anymore, but something I hadn't seen around here before. There were 4 Eurasian Collared Doves in Corson (right north of Brandon) this afternoon. ...
I saw 2 Gyrs today, on at the end of Grey Goose Road,then 1/2 mile west, the other was 2 miles north of Grey Goose Store. Sharing is half the fun of birding. ...
We've had a white house finch visiting our feeders off and on this winter. We are located just northwest of Watertown. I was finally able to get a picture of...
Erland & Sandy Carlson
carlson2322@...
Feb 8, 2006 2:01 am
1702
I birded the eastern edge of Roberts County today (2/9) and got 22 species. There was a lot of feeder activity at Hartford Beach and at a couple of places...
Mark Otnes
markotnes@...
Feb 9, 2006 10:40 pm
1703
Here is the photo of the white House Finch found recently by Eroland Carlson near Watertown: http://www.northern.edu/tallmand/whitehousefinch.jpg dan -- Dan or...
Next weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Count. Despite its name, this birding event isn't just for backyard birders. In fact, one of our goals is to receive...
Hello SD birders, I am planning to come to Pierre around February 20 and staying to the 24th. The goal is to see as many Gyrfalcons as time permits. I will be...
Winter is back. Cold and windy, but the sun is peeking out. Feeder action has been good this AM, with Juncos, Downys, H.Finch, Pine Siskins, B. Creeper,...
mick
zerrm@...
Feb 11, 2006 3:52 pm
1707
At 1:00 I observed a 1st winter Iceland Gull off Marions Point. ID: all Snow white gull with bi-colored bill, about same size as Herring Gull but slimmer and...
(Sorry if this is a duplicate message!). 4 Northern Hills Bird Club members and 3 guests met at Canyon Lake Park (in Rapid City, Pennington County) Saturday...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Feb 11, 2006 8:04 pm
1709
After an Eagle flushed the flock of gulls a couple hours later I refound the flock on LaFramboise Island sandbar. A imm fairly white Glaucous Gull had joined...
I heard a screech owl again, this time in the cottonwoods on the west side of Robbinsdale Park. After sunset on Feb. 11. Michael Melius...
m. melius
mmelius@...
Feb 12, 2006 2:59 am
1711
Charlie and I found this gyrfalcon this morning near the pheasant farm, County Line Road, Lyman County, Fort Pierre National Grassland. I think this is the...
Doug Backlund
dougback@...
Feb 12, 2006 4:16 am
1712
The little gray phase screech owl seen on the NHBC outing (2/11)with trip leader Jocelyn Baker, was still snoozing in his wood duck box at 4pm when I took my ...
This afternoon I found a lone Bohemian Waxwing among a group of about 100 Cedar Waxwings. It was about 2 miles SE of Brandon. Tried forever to get a decent...
Today, Febraury 12, 2006, the following were observed south of Rapid City: Custer County: Golden Eagle, American Kestrel, Lapland Longspur (on S. Fairburn...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Feb 13, 2006 5:15 am
1715
At risk of sounding like a broken record...we still need knowledgeable birders who can help review South Dakota bird sightings flagged as unusual by our Great...
Jocie suggested that I share this photo too... http://www.northern.edu/tallmand/dat/ducks/bago.jpg dan -- Dan or Erika Tallman danerika@... Box 740,...
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