The Northern Hills Bird Club (NHBC) will hold its January meeting 7:00 PM Thursday, January 4, 2007 at the Meade County Extension Service Office, 1029 Fifth...
Feederwatching Sunday, had 5 male Northern bobwhite foraging under the feeders with the juncos. One visited last winter for several weeks and a lone female was...
Yesterday I found a Winter Wren in Spearfish Canyon, just a little ways above Bridal Veil Falls. I went back today to try for better photos and located the...
Scott Weins
sweins@...
Jan 2, 2007 1:06 am
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I was about 15 miles south of Fort Pierre when I spotted an adult gyr on a fence post. I stopped to try for some photos, but it took off. Then I saw that it...
Doug Backlund
dougback@...
Jan 2, 2007 1:27 am
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Always nice to start a new year by getting a new lifer. I went down to Gavin's Point dam this morning, and was having a ball shooting the eagles. I was...
Today on a walk on the Sundance Nature path we saw 25 Mallards. 4 Eurasian C. Doves, 21 Red-wing Bl. Birds, 1 Downy woodpecker, 2 House Finches, 2 House...
Jean
jgwindsong@...
Jan 3, 2007 3:30 am
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A New Year's trip to Aberdeen failed to turn up the Richmond SRA Pine Grosbeak, but the following were seen: Three Red-tailed Hawks, Two Northern Harriers, 3...
mick
zerrm@...
Jan 5, 2007 12:25 am
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I've seen Short-eared Owls on two occasions recently in NE Custer Co. I can actually give an address to the location, since we have new 911 designations that...
m. melius
mmelius@...
Jan 5, 2007 3:38 am
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Hi Caroline, Where are your feeders exactly? I saw some northern bobwhites a month ago onthe west side of Skyline Drive and my grandmother has been seeing one...
The Mew Gull is still here. Ring-billed & Herring Gulls are still here in fair numbers. The only new birds seen this week were 5 Rusty Blackbirds & a Western...
I've posted messages before in this forum about looking for migrating birds of prey from Skyline Drive in Rapid City. I wasn't able to get out much this past...
m. melius
mmelius@...
Jan 5, 2007 6:43 pm
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... From: Bill Huser [mailto:beehive@...] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:44 PM To: NEBirds; SD Birds Subject: Lesser Black-backed Gull --- GONE?? In a...
Every so often one of our local newspapers discovers the Christmas Bird Count. Here is a connection to one about the CBC at Sand Lake NWR....
mick
zerrm@...
Jan 6, 2007 1:26 am
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Today I stopped at Paul Miller"s Res. Off I90 at the border of S. D. and Wy. The large flock of Bohemian Waxwings were flying across the Hwy. to the Res. and...
Jean
jgwindsong@...
Jan 6, 2007 2:10 am
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I visited the Gavin's Point area yesterday afternoon. I didn't find the Lesser Black-backed Gull, but did see Bill Huser's breeding-plumaged Franklin's Gull....
Swanson, David
David.Swanson@...
Jan 6, 2007 4:51 pm
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Hey, Good for you, Dan Dan's sharp-tailed grouse photo featured on p. 70. Very nice comments by contest judge, I thought. Caroline Stafford RC ...
Today, January 6, I observed the Ross's Goose and Barrow's Goldeneye at Canyon Lake. Unless these species leave or new species appear, I won't report again...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Jan 6, 2007 10:01 pm
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On a pretty nice day for January (temp 40) I went over to the Great Bear Ski area to see if the Great Blue Heron was still around. Did not find him, but found...
mick
zerrm@...
Jan 7, 2007 12:19 am
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I forgot to mention that there were Cackling Geese at the lake earlier this week. I didn't look for them today, January 6. Jocelyn Baker, Rapid City ... ...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Jan 7, 2007 1:53 am
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Todd Jensen & I saw a Hoary Redpoll & Common Redpoll on a power line along a sunflower field in Sully County. We also saw a Gyrfalcon in Sully County. A Snowy...
Just in case you did not read this article in Dec. Discover magazine, it is worth a birder's time>...
mick
zerrm@...
Jan 7, 2007 11:13 pm
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On the way to Deadwood we stopped at Paul Miller's Res. off I90 looking for the Barrows Goldeneye. Did not find it but, there were 2 Ringneck Ducks which when...
Jean
jgwindsong@...
Jan 8, 2007 5:04 am
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The Northern Hills Bird Club (NHBC) will conduct a field trip Saturday January 13, 2007. The trip will be a progressive feeder watch starting in Whitewood,...
Mike Michael saw a Snowy Owl on Antelope Creek Road east of Rapid City at 2:30 this afternoon (January 8). It was observed near the Yackley Ranch. Antelope...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Jan 8, 2007 11:09 pm
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I was finally able to pick out the Black Rosy Finches at my feeders today. They are still here but with so many Finches just have to be lucky to look at the...
Jean
jgwindsong@...
Jan 9, 2007 2:02 am
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I have an Eastern Towhee active in my backyard. It is hanging with 8 cardinals--5 males at once on my deck. Many junco, chickadee and a Brown Creeper. I do not...
douglas chapman
foodrev@...
Jan 9, 2007 2:05 am
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Are you South Dakotans aware that there is a Green-tailed Towhee in nearby Mountain Lake in Cottonwood Co., Minnesota? Here is a poor photo of the bird: ...
This morning (January 9) at 8:30, I observed the Snowy Owl that was seen yesterday at 2:30 p.m. by Mike Michael of Rapid City. Here are directions to reach...
Jocelyn Baker
osprey@...
Jan 9, 2007 8:28 pm
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I found a couple Harris' Sparrows in Rapid City today. They were along Rapid Creek, upstream from Canyon Lake. They were in a thicket with juncos and finches,...
